Catherine Havasi
MIT Media Lab
havasi at media
About Me
Information
Member of the Center for Future Bankingand the Common Sense Computing Initiative and the Software Agents Group.
Office: MIT Media Lab 385
Phone: (617) 253 0331
Email: havasi at media dot mit dot edu
Email is the preferred mode of contact
Research Interests
Common sense reasoning, dimensionality reduction, natural language processing, generative lexicon, machine learning, language acquisition, cognitive modeling, intelligent user interfaces, usability testing, cognitive architectures, learning and memory, AI in education, interfaces for encouraging creativity, and non-semantic web ontologies.Teaching
This summer I taught as a visitor at Mathcamp, and frankly it was an awesome experience. I have TAed for:At Brandeis: Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms for Computational Linguistics, Topics in Computational Cognitive Science,Theory of Computation, and the Internet and Society
At MIT: Natural Language Processing
In addition, I do volunteer outreach teaching with the Educational Studies Program.
Personal Interests
I'm interested in hiking and nature, travel, theater, tea, politics, board and card games, teaching, and cooking. I enjoy solving and writing puzzles and am part of the Manic Sages mystery hunt team.In the past I have been part of many theater productions in a directing, producing, or design capacity, but do not plan to do so again for at least a while. Searching Google will find you more examples than these.