Welcome to brachman.org, Ron Brachman's personal site

In February of 2002, I retired from AT&T Labs, after more than 16 years with AT&T.  Since June of 2002, I have been the Director of the Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) at DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.  In this capacity I am helping to lead a new IPTO and DARPA towards a new generation of computational systems with cognitive capabilities, building on artificial intelligence and systems work from many parts of computer science.

    For a brief description of my background, please click here.

For our DARPA BAA on Cognitive Information Processing Technology, please look here.

Hector Levesque and I have recently published a textbook in the area of knowledge representation and reasoning.  It is a great fit to a single semester course for early graduate students and even for upper-class undergraduates.  Please take a look – it’s called, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.

Contacting me

Please feel free to contact me at my current person e-mail address: r j b @ <my last name> . o r g.  Mail relating to my new position at DARPA should go to my DARPA address (see the DARPA website for this information).