Root-1 Research is interested in problems related to cognition, communication and education, especially in the context of HCI. Our current efforts are on trying to find algorithmic ways to make middle- and high-school level content presentations somewhat more interesting. As such, we are interested in hearing from people who have opinions on content, presentational models, motivational models or collaborative educational models.

This web page is a place holder for a more detailed website that will describe the kinds of problems that Root-1 Research plans to work on.

Vibhu Mittal, (first from left): Vibhu received his degrees in Computer Science from IIT-Bombay (B.Tech), Ohio State University (MS) and the University of Southern California (Ph.D). He has been affiliated with the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, Xerox PARC, Stanford/CSLI, and Google Research. He has written dozens of papers and patents, as well as two books, most of them on topics that deal with natural language processing.

His current interests are in the areas of education, gaming and HCI. He has consulted for many companies, serves on several TABs, is a director at community non-profits, and was on the advisory panel for the Indian Govt's Universal ID project and the EU ESPIRIT PASCAL project on statistical machine learning and pattern recognition.

We are located in Palo Alto, home to Stanford University.

Please email us at root-1@root-1.com. Minor modifications are required to deter automated bots. Send email to user ROOT not Root-1. (The user is real even if the domain is imaginary.)

If it becomes necessary to call, though email is preferred, call us at 650-492-5675.

Thanks and we look forward to learning something new.