School of Information Sciences

Paul Munro

Chair, Information Science Program & Associate Professor

721 IS Building
412-624-9427

pmunro@sis.pitt.edu
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Institution of highest degree:
Ph.D. Brown University

Research Interests:

Connectionist systems; neural information processing; image processing; modeling and simulation; cognitive science; models of learning; visualization; genetic algorithms/artificial life.

Recent Publications:

Munro, P., and Jianghua Bao. 2006. A Connectionist Implementation of Identical Elements. Twenty-third Annual Conference Cognitive Science Society Proceedings.

Munro, P., and Y. Peng. 2005. Learning Arbitrary Functions With Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity Learning Rule. Proceedings of 2005 International Conference on Neural Networks and Brain. Beijing, China.

Munro, P., Zheng, L., Gilbertson, J., and Becich, M.J. 2005. K-Means Color Quantization and Run-Length Feature for Image Content Imaging and Abstraction, CBMI-05.

Eds. Munro, P., Lovett, Marsha, Schunn, and Lebiere, Christian. 2004. Proceedings Of the 6th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

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