IBM Watson Research Center

Jamie Rasmussen Advisory Software Engineer Contact: jrasmus@us.ibm.com Research Interests: Collaborative Reasoning Knowledge Representation Consumable Semantics Synchronous Collaboration Intelligent User Interfaces Jamie Rasmussen joined the Collaborative User Experience group in March 2007. He is working with John Patterson as part of a team that is exploring the notion of Collaborative Reasoning, the work a group of people does to collect, organize, and reason about information. In many situations, there is too much incoming information for one person to sift through alone, and the knowledge required to take appropriate action may be spread among many people. Jamie is currently investigating tools that allow a group of analysts to collaborate through an evolving ontology, and some ways mixed-initiative Artificial Intelligence techniques can aid these users during time-critical decision making tasks. Before joining CUE, Jamie was a Member of Technical Staff in the Software Group at Epson Research & Development, where he worked on IMX, an advanced desktop videoconferencing system. Prior to that, he spent two years as a Research Fellow at Media Lab Europe, a spin-off of the MIT Media Lab in Dublin, Ireland, where he investigated novel technologies for informal learning environments. Jamie has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT. In addition to coding, cooking, and canines, Jamie loves to travel, and has recently visited Thailand, Belize, and the Cook Islands. Projects: Collaborative Reasoning Publications: Hupfer, S., Ross, S., Rasmussen, J., Christensen J., Levy, S., Gruen, D., and Patterson, J. "CRAFTing an Environment for Collaborative Reasoning", Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, February 2009, Sanibel Island, FL, USA Gruen, D., Rasmussen, J., Liu, J., Hupfer, S., and Ross, S. "Collaborative Reasoning and Collaborative Ontology Development in CRAFT", AAAI Spring Symposium on Semantic Web and Knowledge Engineering, March 2008, Stanford, CA, USA. Rasmussen, J., Butler, D., and Davenport, G., "A Web-based Environment for Assembling Multimedia Learning Stories in Irish Primary Education", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, Kazan, Russia, 9-12 September 2002. Cherubini, M., Rasmussen, J., Gash, H., and McCloughlin, T., "Digital Seed: An Interactive Toy for Children’s Explorations of Plant Growth and Life Cycles", Poster presented at the International Workshop on Interaction Design and Children, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, 28 – 29 August 2002. Ivashin, V. and Rasmussen, J. (To Seiko Epson Corporation.), "Viewport Panning Feedback System," U. S. Patent 7,274,377, September 25, 2007.