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Lawrence Cavedon
Senior Researcher
Dr. Lawrence Cavedon is a Senior Research at NICTA Victoria Research Laboratory, and project leader for the Interactive Information Discovery and Delivery (I2D2) project. His research interests include interactive dialogue interfaces, language- and speech-based interaction, intelligent agents and multi-agent systems, and service-oriented computing.
Prior to joining NICTA, Dr. Cavedon spent 3 years as a Senior Researcher at Stanford University, in the Center for the Study of Language and Information. During that time he worked on developing practical speech-based dialogue systems, and collaborated with organizations such as Boeing, NASA, Bosch, and VW America. Prior to that, Dr. Cavedon worked the Advanced Technology Group at VerticalNet Inc., a Silicon Valley company developing new technologies for the large-enterprise space. While there, he led a team that developed one of the first Semantic Web Services infrastructures, and also led engineering teams working on VerticalNet products. From 1994-1999 Dr. Cavedon was a lecturer at RMIT University in Melbourne Australia, and also held positions at the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute and other Australian companies.
Dr. Cavedon holds B.Sc. (Hons) (1986) and M.Sc. (1989) degrees in Computer Science from the University of Melbourne, and a PhD (1995) in Cognitive Science from the University of Edinburgh.
Contact Details:
Email: lawrence.cavedon@nicta.com.au
Phone: (+61 3) 8344-5016
WWW: http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~lcavedon
Prior to joining NICTA, Dr. Cavedon spent 3 years as a Senior Researcher at Stanford University, in the Center for the Study of Language and Information. During that time he worked on developing practical speech-based dialogue systems, and collaborated with organizations such as Boeing, NASA, Bosch, and VW America. Prior to that, Dr. Cavedon worked the Advanced Technology Group at VerticalNet Inc., a Silicon Valley company developing new technologies for the large-enterprise space. While there, he led a team that developed one of the first Semantic Web Services infrastructures, and also led engineering teams working on VerticalNet products. From 1994-1999 Dr. Cavedon was a lecturer at RMIT University in Melbourne Australia, and also held positions at the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute and other Australian companies.
Dr. Cavedon holds B.Sc. (Hons) (1986) and M.Sc. (1989) degrees in Computer Science from the University of Melbourne, and a PhD (1995) in Cognitive Science from the University of Edinburgh.
Contact Details:
Email: lawrence.cavedon@nicta.com.au
Phone: (+61 3) 8344-5016
WWW: http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~lcavedon