Charles Rich
Professor at WPI
Newton, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Rich is a Professor of Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a decades-long career bridging artificial intelligence, interactive media, game development, and human-robot interaction. A former founding researcher at Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs and MIT AI Lab alumnus, he led the Programmer's Apprentice project and has held senior research and leadership roles since the 1980s. A Fellow and past Councilor of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, he has chaired and co-chaired numerous major AI and human-computer interaction conferences, shaping research agendas across multiple communities. Based in Newton, Massachusetts, he blends deep research pedigree with practical interdisciplinary teaching in robotics and game development, and is known for translating foundational AI concepts into interactive systems and educational experiences.
13 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Artificial Intelligence, PhD, Artificial Intelligence at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (17)
always-on10
racket9
code-golf9
scheme9
mojo8
discourse8
relational8
stack-based7
polyglot7
laravel7
php7
disco7
programming-language5
discord4
prolog4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
always-on/always
Nov 2012 - Dec 2015
Contributions:1132 commits, 3 PRs, 33 pushes in 3 years 1 month
relationalagentsadultsalways-onisolated
charlesrich/Disco
Mar 2014 - Nov 2016
Contributions:4 releases, 445 commits, 262 pushes in 2 years 8 months
laravelphpcollaborativediscourse
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