Sending email to Hector Levesque

Unfortunately, I get more email than I can answer. Before sending me a message, dealing with my unfriendly spam filter, and waiting for a reply, you might want to check whether your inquiry is addressed by one of the points below:

• I am now retired!

  As of July 2014, I have retired from the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto. I still do read email at my University address, but not as often. So I will eventually see any email that makes it through my spam filter to my INBOX. If you need to contact me urgently, please get in touch with Luna Keshwah. (Her email address is just like mine except that it uses her first name instead of mine.)

• Would I be willing to do x?

  The amount of time I have to spend on academic matters is small. (The amount of time where I would be paid is zero.) Among other things, this means that I really do need to step aside and give the next generation of researchers the chance I was given to review papers, serve on program committees, talk to the press, write survey articles, contribute to edited collections, and the like. (But thank you for thinking of me for this.)

• Prospective graduate students

  I am not yet sure how many new graduate students I will be able to supervise as Professor Emeritus in the years to come. Possibly none. However, all the information you need to apply for admission to the graduate program in Computer Science at the University of Toronto is available here. Graduate admissions are handled by a central committee, which processes applications in all areas of CS and decides on admissions for the entire department. Individual faculty members do not accept students on their own, so sending me an email about your application will not increase your chances of being admitted into the program. If you think you would like to work in the area of Knowledge Representation, then good for you, you should say so in your application. Once you are accepted into the Department as a graduate student, you are guaranteed funding by the department regardless of who your supervisor is.

• Internships, visiting researchers, postdocs

  Due to my retirement and a variety of other constraints, I am not able to accommodate any new interns, visiting researchers, scholars, or postdocs in my group at this time.