Stuart C. Shapiro

Professor, Emeritus
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Contact Information:
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
338 Davis Hall, University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260-2500

Phone: (716) 645-4765
Email:  shapiro@buffalo.edu
Personal Website: 

Portrait of professor.

Areas of Specialization

Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Natural Language Understanding and Generation, Cognitive Robotics

Current Research

Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Natural Language Understanding, Cognitive Architecture

Selected Publications

  • Stuart C. Shapiro and Jonathan P. Bona, The GLAIR Cognitive Architecture, International Journal of Machine Consciousness 2, 2 (2010), 307-332.
  • Stuart C. Shapiro, A Logic of Arbitrary and Indefinite Objects. In D. Dubois, C. Welty, & M. Williams, Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference (KR2004), AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA, 2004, 565-575.
  • Lucja M. Iwanska and Stuart C. Shapiro, Eds., Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Representation: Language for Knowledge and Knowledge for Language, AAAI Press/The MIT Press, Menlo Park, CA, 2000.
  • Stuart C. Shapiro, A Procedural Solution to the Unexpected Hanging and Sorites Paradoxes. Mind 107, 428 (October, 1998), 751-761.
  • Stuart C. Shapiro, Editor-in-Chief,  Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence, Second Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1992.