Norman Carver

Norman Carver is a distinguished technology research scientist specializing in the area of Multi-agent systems, distributed problem solving, sensor interpretation, knowledge-intensive control of AI systems distributed problem solving (DPS), machine learning, multi-agent learning, architectures for knowledge-intensive control of AI systems.

As a research scientist with numerous publications and two grants by the National Science Foundation, much of Dr. Carver’s theoretical work has been based on the use of Decentralized Markov Decision Processes (DEC-MDPs) for modeling MAS problems and producing minimum communication coordination strategies. Dr. Carver is the Chief Technology Officer at Potentia Analytics and a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale with a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts.