Edward Feigenbaum

Edward "Ed" Albert Feigenbaum ( born January 20, 1936 in Weehawken, New Jersey) is an American computer scientist who is commonly regarded as the " father of expert systems ." In 1994 he received jointly with Raj Reddy the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM ) for pioneering work in the creation and development of a large area usable systems of artificial intelligence with which they demonstrated the practical need and commercial potential of AI technology. Today he is an emeritus professor of computer science at Stanford University.

Feigenbaum studied at Carnegie Mellon University where she completed his studies with a doctorate in Herbert Simon. From 1960 to 1964 he was a research assistant at the University of California, Berkeley, where Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider recruited him for an AI research project of ARPA, in the environment, inter alia, he David C. Evans, the timesharing system of SDS 940 designed. In 1965 he moved to John McCarthy and George E. Forsythe at the newly founded Faculty of computer science at Stanford University, withdrew from the hardware design and soon became director of its data center. He developed, inter alia, in the context of the ARPA program with the chemist Carl Djerassi and the molecular biologist Joshua Lederberg, the first expert system DENDRAL, and was also involved in the development of medical diagnosis Mycin system.

Until 1992 he was deputy scientific director (principal investigator ) of the national data center for applications of artificial intelligence to medicine and biology ( SUMEX - AIM, Stanford University Medical Experimental Facility / AI in Medicine ) from the National Institutes of Health at Stanford University. He also founded the Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Stanford University and led the meantime, the Faculty of computer science.

Feigenbaum was president of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the board of the United States National Library of Medicine and the Board of Directors of the Sperry Corporation. He has worked in the computer science committees of the National Science Foundation and the National Research Council, and in an ARPA - Committee on Information Science and Technology. From 1994 to 1997 he was chief scientist of the United States Air Force. In addition, he has co-founded three companies in the area of ​​applied artificial intelligence, IntelliCorp, Teknowledge and design power.

At the fig tree PhD student include Douglas B. Lenat and Niklaus Wirth ( Turing Award 1984).

Awards

According to him also the Feigenbaum Medal is named, the World Congress of Expert Systems to award, and whose first winner was himself. With the fees for the book Computers & Thought also of the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award was launched.

Writings

  • Edited with Julian Feldman: Computers & Thought. McGraw- Hill, New York 1963
  • Knowledge Processing: From File Servers to Knowledge Servers. In: Raymond Kurzweil: The Age of Intelligent Machines. MIT Press, Cambridge, 1990, ISBN 978-0-2621-1121-8
John McCarthy (computer scientist) Douglas Lenat National Academy of Engineering American Academy of Arts and Sciences McGraw Hill Financial Ray Kurzweil Alan Perlis Maurice Wilkes James H. Wilkinson Charles Bachman Donald Knuth Allen Newell Herbert A. Simon Michael O. Rabin Kenneth E. Iverson Stephen Cook Richard M. Karp John Cocke Manuel Blum Amir Pnueli Kristen Nygaard Ron Rivest Adi Shamir E. Allen Emerson Joseph Sifakis Charles P. Thacker Judea Pearl Leslie Lamport
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