Dick Stottler

Dick co-founded Stottler Henke in 1988 as a software company dedicated to providing practical solutions to difficult problems by skillfully drawing upon a large repertoire of artificial intelligence technologies. Under Dick's leadership, Stottler Henke has grown steadily and profitably into a 40-person research and software development company with distinctive expertise in intelligent tutoring systems, intelligent simulation, automated planning and scheduling, and intelligent knowledge management.

Dick provides technical leadership in the design and development of intelligent tutoring systems, intelligent planning and scheduling systems, and automated design systems. He combines a strong applied research record in artificial intelligence with practical experience in rapid and efficient knowledge engineering. He has led the development of intelligent tutoring systems that encode the expertise of instructors to provide practice-based learning and automated evaluation of student performance in subject areas spanning navy tactics; army tactics, command, and control; sonar data analysis; astronaut training; helicopter cockpit operations; and battlefield emergency medicine. He also led the development of intelligent planning systems for NASA space shuttle missions and aircraft assembly and automated scheduling for the International Space Station. He also led the development of intelligent systems that encode and apply human expertise and experience to automate the design of manufacturing processes and aircraft systems to lower manufacturing costs, increase product quality, or achieve demanding performance criteria.

Dick has written or presented more than two dozen papers and articles for publications such as the proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). He received his BS in engineering from Cornell University and his MS in computer science (artificial intelligence) from Stanford University.