• Ph.D., Information Science (with concentration in Cognitive Science and Pattern Recognition), University of Pittsburgh, 1979.
• M.S., Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, 1977.
• B.S., Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, 1974.

Honors and Professional Societies

American Association for Artificial Intelligence

IEEE

Association for Computing Machinery

American Geophysics Union

Computer User Interface (CHI) Reviewer 1990 - 2001

Human Factors Society Technical Group on Aging

Won the best paper award for "JADE: A Tool for Rapid Crisis Action Planning", Presented at: Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium, United States Naval War College, Newport, RI, June 1999.

Experience

Dr. Alice M. Mulvehill is a Division Scientist in the Human Centered Systems Group at BBN Technologies. At BBN since 1996, her focus is on developing applications utilizing Artificial Intelligence techniques (e.g., case-based reasoning, knowledge acquisition/engineering, induction, constraint-based planning, blackboards, intelligent agents).

BBN Technologies, 1996 - present

While at BBN she has managed and/or has been the principle investigator for a number of DARPA and AFRL funded systems including: a case-based logistics system called Joint Assistant for Force Deployment and Execution (JADE); an AFRL funded agent-based decision support tool called Automated Clearance Tool (ACT) that uses semantic annotation technology to support the processing of diplomatic clearances for Air Mobility Command aircraft; and a template-based tool Tracker that was developed for the DARPA Active Templates program and used to build a plan authoring toolkit for the special operations forces. Currently she is developing a model adaptation tool for the DARPA JAGUAR project.

MITRE Corporation, 1979 - 1996

At MITRE Dr. Alice Mulvehill participated in the development and successful transition of a number of knowledge based (planning, scheduling, and diagnostic) systems for the Air Force, DARPA and NASA including: ForMAT (a force deployment logistics tool), THOR (A thunderstorm detection system), the Computer CARE Center system (a computer diagnostic system), KNOBS, KRS, CAMPS (each of these improved upon the other and supported Air Tasking Order generation and execution) and EMPRESS (a NASA Space Shuttle Cargo Planning and Scheduling System). At MITRE, her relationship to her sponsors and end-users has been one of knowledge-based system development as well of consultation on a variety of information systems issues; ranging from acquisition, testing and evaluation, and finally, transition. At MITRE, Dr Mulvehill was involved in the design, development and evaluation of several training systems and of several computer-user interfaces. In addition, she participated in several military demonstrations and exercises, e.g., JWID94, JWID95, Tempo Brave, both as a technology participant and in the role of system evaluator. She also has participated in a number of technical interchange experiments with several Universities in an endeavor to help transition basic research into operational environments. Prior to the development of the force deployment system JADE, she worked on SMARTPlan, a Case Based Reasoning System aimed at supporting the transportation planning needs of the Military Airlift Command.