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Edward Albert Feigenbaum
Born (1936-01-20) January 20, 1936 (age 88)
Weehawken, New Jersey
NationalityAmerican
Alma materCarnegie Mellon University (B.S., 1956; Ph.D., 1960)
Known forExpert system
DENDRAL project
AwardsTuring Award (1994)
Computer Pioneer Award
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
Artificial intelligence
InstitutionsStanford University
United States Air Force
Doctoral advisorHerbert A. Simon

Edward Albert Feigenbaum (born January 20, 1936) is a computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence, and joint winner of the 1994 ACM Turing Award. He is often called the "father of expert systems."[1]

Biography

Feigenbaum was born in Weehawken, New Jersey in 1936 to a culturally Jewish family, and moved to nearby North Bergen, where he lived until he started college at the age of 16, when he left to start college.[2][3] His hometown didn't have a secondary school of its own and he chose Weehawken High School for its college preparatory program.[3][4] He was inducted into his high school's hall of fame in 1996.[5]

Feigenbaum completed his undergraduate degree (1956), and a Ph.D. (1960),[6][7] at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University). In his Ph.D thesis, carried out under the supervision of Herbert A. Simon, he developed EPAM, one of the first computer models of how people learn.[8]

Feigenbaum completed a Fulbright Fellowship at the National Physics Laboratory and in 1960 went to the University of California, Berkeley, to teach in the School of Business Administration. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1965 as one of the founders of its computer science department.[9] He was the director of the Stanford Computation Center from 1965 to 1968. He established the Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Stanford University. Important project that Ed was involved in include ACME, Mycin, SUMEX, and Dendral. He also co-founded companiesas IntelliCorp and Teknowledge.

Since 2000 Ed Feigenbaum is a Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Stanford University.

Honors and awards

Articles by Edward Feigenbaum

  • Feigenbaum, Edward A.; McCurduck, Pamela (1983). The Fifth Generation: Artificial Intelligence and Japan’s Computer Challenge to the World. Addison Wesley Publishing Company.
  • The Age of Intelligent Machines: Knowledge Processing--From File Servers to Knowledge Servers by Edward Feigenbaum
  • Feigenbaum, Edward A. (2003). "Some challenges and grand challenges for computational intelligence". Journal of the ACM. 50 (1): 32–40. doi:10.1145/602382.602400.

References

  1. ^ Edward Feigenbaum 2012 Fellow
  2. ^ Len Shustek. "An Interview with Ed Feigenbaum". Communications of the ACM. Retrieved 14 October 2013.
  3. ^ a b Knuth, Don. "Oral History of Edward Feigenbaum, Computer History Museum, 2007. Accessed October 23, 2015. "I was born in Weehawken, New Jersey, which is a town on the Palisades opposite New York. In fact, it’s the place where the Lincoln Tunnel dives under the water and comes up in New York. Then my parents moved up the Palisades four miles to a town called North Bergen, and there I lived until I was 16 and went off to Carnegie Tech."
  4. ^ Lederberg, Joshua. "How DENDRAL was conceived and born", United States National Library of Medicine, November 5, 1987. Accessed October 23, 2015. "I became an expert on its use. I even remember dragging it with me miles on the bus to Weehawken High School, heavy as it was, just to show off my skill with this marvelous technology that no other kid in the high school knew anything about."
  5. ^ Hague, Jim. "Academic awards aplenty; Weehawken honors top students, inducts Pasquale into Hall of Fame", Hudson Reporter, May 13, 2000. Accessed October 23, 2015. "Edward Feigenbaum (Class of '53) in 1996"
  6. ^ Edward Albert Feigenbaum at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  7. ^ "ProQuest Document ID 301899261". ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. ProQuest. Retrieved September 19, 2011.
  8. ^ "Guide to the Edward A. Feigenbaum Papers" (PDF). Stanford University. 2010. p. 2. Retrieved September 12, 2011.
  9. ^ "Edward A. Feigenbaum Papers". Stanford University. 2012.
  10. ^ "AI's Hall of Fame" (PDF). IEEE Intelligent Systems. 26 (4). IEEE Computer Society: 5–15. 2011. doi:10.1109/MIS.2011.64.
  11. ^ "IEEE Computer Society Magazine Honors Artificial Intelligence Leaders". DigitalJournal.com. August 24, 2011. Retrieved September 18, 2011. Press release source: PRWeb (Vocus).
  12. ^ "Edward Feigenbaum". Computer History Museum. Retrieved 2013-05-23.

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