Earl J. Wagner PhD Student and Research Associate at the Northwestern University EECS Department. Short Bio I'm working on Brussell with Jiahui Liu and my advisor, Larry Birnbaum. Brussell helps people understand the context of news events, including what happened before and after, and track situations over time. Before coming to Northwestern, I received an MS with the MIT Media Lab Software Agents Group. I worked with Henry Lieberman on the Woodstein project. We developed a tool for helping users visualize their actions on the web and diagnose problems when something goes wrong. I did my undergraduate studies at UC-Berkeley, majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Philosophy. While there, I worked on the Harmonia Project with Susan Graham. I grew up on the Philadelphia Main Line and attended Lower Merion High School.

Publications by Project

Brussell

• Wagner, E., Liu, J., Birnbaum, L., Forbus, K., and Baker, J. Using Explicit Semantic Models to Track Situations Across News Articles. AAAI 2006 Workshop on Event Extraction and Synthesis. PDF, Slides PDF
• Birnbaum, L, Forbus, K., Wagner, E., Baker, and Witbrock, M., Analogy, Intelligent IR, and Knowledge Integration for Intelligence Analysis. 2005 AAAI Spring Symposium on AI Technologies for Homeland Security. PDF

Woodstein

• Wagner, E. J. and Lieberman, H. Supporting User Hypotheses in Problem Diagnosis - on the Web and Elsewhere. In Proceedings of IUI, 2004. PDF, Slides PDF
• Lieberman, H. and Wagner, E. J. Understanding and Debugging System Configuration. Presentation at IBM Conference on the Human Impact and Application of Autonomic Computing Systems (CHIACS2). April 21, 2004. IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. Yorktown Heights, New York. PDF, Slides PDF
• Wagner, E. J. and Lieberman, H. Personalized presentation of policies and processes. In Designing Personalized User Experiences in E-commerce, J. Karat, J. Vanderdonekt, C. Karat, and J. O. Blom, Eds. 2004. Human-Computer Interaction Series, vol. 5. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 275-292.
• Wagner, E. J. Woodstein: A Web Interface Agent for Debugging E-Commerce. MIT MS Thesis, 2003. PDF
• Lieberman, H. and Wagner, E. J. End-User Debugging for E-Commerce. In Proceedings of IUI, 2003. PDF

  Earl J. Wagner
  Research Associate
 
  Northwestern University
  Electrical Engineeering and Computer Science Department
  2133 Sheridan Rd, 2-204
  Evanston IL 60208