Barney Darryl Pell

Biography

Dr. Barney Pell is a Senior Computer Scientist in the in the Computational Sciences Division at NASA Ames Research Center. He is one of the architects of the Remote Agent for the Deep Space One (DS-1) mission, leads the Intelligent Execution Agents research group at NASA Ames, and is Co-Lead of the Autonomy Integrated Product Development Team for NASA's New Millennium Program (NMP). His current research interests include spacecraft autonomy, integrated agent architecture, reactive execution systems, collaborative software development, and strategic reasoning. Dr. Pell received his B.S. degree with distinction in Symbolic Systems at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in computer science at Cambridge University, England, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar. Pell was guest editor for Computational Intelligence Journal in 1996 and has given invited talks and tutorials worldwide on autonomous agents, space robotics, and computer game-playing.

More information

- Barney D. Pell <pell@barney.arc.nasa.gov>, 2/6/94