Dana NauDana Nau is a Professor at the University of Maryland, in the Department of Computer Science and the Institute for Systems Research. He has more than 300 refereed technical publications. Some of his best-known research contributions include the discoery of pathological game trees, the strategic planning algorithm that Bridge Baron used to win the 1997 world championship of computer bridge, applications of AI in automated manufacturing, automated planning systems such as SHOP, SHOP2, and Pyhop, and evolutionary game-theoretic studies of cultural evolution. He is a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fellow and the Association for Computer Machinery. Read More Read Less