John E. Laird

12.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
178 papers, 6.1k citations indexed

About

John E. Laird is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Control and Systems Engineering and Computer Networks and Communications. According to data from OpenAlex, John E. Laird has authored 178 papers receiving a total of 6.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 130 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 19 papers in Control and Systems Engineering and 16 papers in Computer Networks and Communications. Recurrent topics in John E. Laird's work include AI-based Problem Solving and Planning (88 papers), Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (33 papers) and Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (25 papers). John E. Laird is often cited by papers focused on AI-based Problem Solving and Planning (88 papers), Reinforcement Learning in Robotics (33 papers) and Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (25 papers). John E. Laird collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. John E. Laird's co-authors include Paul S. Rosenbloom, Allen Newell, Michael van Lent, Pat Langley, Robert Marinier, Christian Lebière, Robert E. Wray, Scott B. Huffman, Shiwali Mohan and James R. Kirk and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, NeuroImage and Communications of the ACM.

In The Last Decade

John E. Laird

163 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Hit Papers

SOAR: An architecture for general intelligence 1987 2026 2000 2013 1987 2012 2008 400 800 1.2k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John E. Laird United States 34 4.6k 719 656 655 595 178 6.1k
Kenneth D. Forbus United States 35 5.2k 1.1× 484 0.7× 434 0.7× 420 0.6× 703 1.2× 239 7.8k
Paul S. Rosenbloom United States 25 2.9k 0.6× 500 0.7× 385 0.6× 272 0.4× 257 0.4× 113 4.1k
Barbara Hayes‐Roth United States 27 2.0k 0.4× 477 0.7× 527 0.8× 507 0.8× 549 0.9× 108 5.0k
Mark Steedman United Kingdom 48 6.4k 1.4× 1.3k 1.8× 426 0.6× 491 0.7× 1.2k 2.1× 209 9.3k
Frederick Hayes‐Roth United States 23 2.4k 0.5× 368 0.5× 295 0.4× 296 0.5× 313 0.5× 82 4.9k
Jerome A. Feldman United States 33 1.9k 0.4× 1.3k 1.8× 443 0.7× 175 0.3× 589 1.0× 109 4.7k
Randall Davis United States 39 3.3k 0.7× 513 0.7× 194 0.3× 585 0.9× 1.5k 2.5× 177 6.9k
Stefan Wermter Germany 32 2.9k 0.6× 792 1.1× 566 0.9× 616 0.9× 1.7k 2.9× 299 5.5k
Christian Lebière United States 24 2.3k 0.5× 1.8k 2.5× 934 1.4× 206 0.3× 304 0.5× 152 5.5k
Martha E. Pollack United States 33 2.9k 0.6× 197 0.3× 521 0.8× 267 0.4× 641 1.1× 114 5.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John E. Laird

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kirk, James R., et al.. (2024). Improving Knowledge Extraction from LLMs for Task Learning through Agent Analysis. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 38(16). 18390–18398. 6 indexed citations
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Laird, John E., et al.. (2013). A Preliminary Functional Analysis of Memory in the Word Sense Disambiguation Task.
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Li, Justin & John E. Laird. (2011). Preliminary Evaluation of Long-term Memories for Fulfilling Delayed Intentions. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1 indexed citations
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Laird, John E., Robert E. Wray, Robert Marinier, & Pat Langley. (2009). Claims and Challenges in Evaluating Human-Level Intelligent Systems. 15 indexed citations
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Laird, John E., et al.. (2007). Extending cognitive architecture with episodic memory. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1560–1565. 59 indexed citations
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Laird, John E., et al.. (2007). SORTS: A Human-Level Approach to Real-Time Strategy AI. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment. 3(1). 55–60. 22 indexed citations
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Laird, John E., et al.. (2004). Integrating Reinforcement Learning with Soar.. 18(7). 208–213. 3 indexed citations
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Laird, John E., et al.. (2004). A Cognitive Model of Episodic Memory Integrated with a General Cognitive Architecture.. 35(2). 220–225. 49 indexed citations
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Magerko, Brian, et al.. (2004). AI Characters and Directors for Interactive Computer Games. 65 indexed citations
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Laird, John E. & Michael van Lent. (2000). Human-Level AI's Killer Application: Interactive Computer Games. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 1171–1178. 190 indexed citations
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Lent, Michael van & John E. Laird. (1999). Learning Hierarchical Performance Knowledge by Observation. International Conference on Machine Learning. 229–238. 23 indexed citations
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Wallace, Scott A. & John E. Laird. (1999). Toward a Methodology for AI Architecture Evaluation: Comparing Soar And CLIPS. 2 indexed citations
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Laird, John E., et al.. (1998). Modeling dual-task performance improvement: Casting executive process knowledge acquisition as strategy refinement.. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 10 indexed citations
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Wray, Robert E. & John E. Laird. (1998). Maintaining consistency in hierarchical reasoning. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 928–935. 3 indexed citations
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Laird, John E., Paul S. Rosenbloom, & Allen Newell. (1993). Overgeneralization during knowledge compilation in Soar. MIT Press eBooks. 387–398. 4 indexed citations
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Laird, John E. & Paul S. Rosenbloom. (1990). Integrating execution, planning, and learning in Soar for external environments. MIT Press eBooks. 172. 1022–1029. 56 indexed citations
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Golding, Andrew R., Paul S. Rosenbloom, & John E. Laird. (1987). Learning general search control from outside guidance. MIT Press eBooks. 334–337. 4 indexed citations
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Laird, John E., Allen Newell, & Paul S. Rosenbloom. (1984). Towards chunking as a general learning mechanism. MIT Press eBooks. 188–192. 11 indexed citations
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Laird, John E. & Allen Newell. (1983). A universal weak method: summary of results. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 771–773. 42 indexed citations

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