I am a graduate student in the Commonsense Computing Group at the MIT Media Lab working in the area of reflective commonsense architectures specifically procedural learning for reflective thinking, scene understanding and commonsense knowledge acquisition.
Some of my friends:
Bo Morgan
Dustin Smith
Push Singh (never knew him !)
Favorite people:
Marvin Minsky
Aaron Sloman
John McCarthy
Erik Mueller
Patrick Winston
Tommi Poggio
Ken Forbus
Ben Kuipers
Robert Morris
Doug Lenat
Steve Pinker
Dan Dennett
Richard Dawkins
Woody Allen
Ingmar Bergman
Rachmaninoff
Beethoven
Carlin, Colbert, Stewart, Borat :)
Here's a good reference for Commonsense: Commonsense Bibliography