Woody Bledsoe
Woodrow Wilson Bledsoe | |
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| Born | November 12, 1921 |
| Died | October 4, 1995 (aged 73) |
| Cause of death | ALS |
| Spouse | Virginia (née Norgaard) |
| Children | Margaret, Greg, Pam, Lance |
| Awards | IJCAI Distinguished Service Award 1991, AMS Milestone Award 1991 |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | Separative Measures for Topological Spaces (1953) |
| Doctoral advisor | Anthony Perry Morse |
| Doctoral students | Robert Anderson, Robert S. Boyer, Peter Bruell, Stephen Darden, Guohui Feng, Larry Hines, Dallas Lankford, Vesko Marinov, John Minor, Mark Moriconi, James Morris, Donald Simon, William Tyson, John Ulrich, Tie-Cheng Wang, Charles Wilks |
Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Bledsoe (November 12, 1921 – October 4, 1995) was a mathematician, computer scientist, and prominent educator. He is one of the founders of artificial intelligence, making early contributions in pattern recognition[1] and automated theorem proving.[2][3][4][5] He continued to make significant contributions to AI throughout his long career.
Bledsoe joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as an adult, and served in the church as a Bishop, counselor to the Stake Presidency, and Stake Patriarch. He also served as a leader in the Boy Scouts of America.[6][7] Bledsoe died on October 4, 1995 of ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
Notes
- ^ W.W. Bledsoe (1966). "Some Results on Multicategory Pattern Recognition". J.ACM. 13 (2): 304–316.
- ^ W.W. Bledsoe (1971). "Splitting and Reduction Heuristics in Automatic Theorem Proving" (PDF). Artif. Intell. 2 (1): 55–77.
- ^ W.W. Bledsoe (September 1975). "A New Method for Proving Certain Presburger Formulas". Proc. IJCAI (PDF). pp. 15–21.
- ^ W.W. Bledsoe (1977). "Non-Resolution Theorem Proving". Artificial Intelligence. 9: 1–35. doi:10.1016/0004-3702(77)90012-1. — Preceding technical report ATP29 (Sep.1975)
- ^ W.W. Bledsoe and Kenneth Kunen and Robert E. Shostak (1985). "Completeness Results for Inequality Provers". Artif. Intell. 27 (3): 255–288. — Preceding technical report ATP65 (1983)
- ^ Memorial Resolution – Woodrow W. Bledsoe
- ^ "UT science pioneer `Woody' Bledsoe dies". Austin American-Statesman. October 6, 1995. Retrieved March 13, 2013.
Further reading
- Boyer, Anne Olivia; Boyer, Robert S. (1991). "A Biographical Sketch of W. W. Bledsoe". In Boyer, Robert S. (ed.). Automated Reasoning: Essays in Honor of Woody Bledsoe. Kluwer Academic Publishers Group. pp. 1–29. CiteSeerx: 10.1.1.57.3396.
External links
- W.W. Bledsoe at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Michael Ballantyne, Robert S. Boyer and Larry Hines. "Woody Bledsoe: His Life and Legacy" AI Magazine, Vol. 17. No. 1, pp. 7–20, Spring 1996, American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
- W.W. Bledsoe's publications at DBLP
- W.W. Bledsoe at the chess programming wiki
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