Justin L. Blount Graduate Student, Research Assistant Knowledge Representation Lab Computer Science Department Texas Tech University e-mail address: justin.blount@ttu.com

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science - Southwestern Oklahoma State University (Dec 2004)

Research Interests

• Knowledge Representation
• Intelligent Agents
• Commonsense Reasoning
• Reasoning Algorithms
• Programming Languages

Research Activities

Currently, I am working with Jarred Blount (colleage and brother) on developing a method that will allow agents to reason about and operate in more complex environments.

• Reasoning about agents and their interaction with their environment
• General applications of answer set programming

Organizations and Affiliations

• Member of TAG (Texas Action Group)
• Member of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

Publications

• Nelson Rushton, Jarred Blount, Justin Blount. "An experiment on performance of declarative and procedural languages". To appear in Proceedings of 2007 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering.