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Ed Feigenbaum
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Feigenbaum in 1994
Born
Edward Albert Feigenbaum

(1936-01-20) January 20, 1936 (age 90)
Weehawken, New Jersey
EducationCarnegie Mellon University (BS, MS, PhD)
Known forExpert systems
EPAM
DENDRAL project
Feigenbaum test
AwardsTuring Award (1994)
Computer Pioneer Award
AAAI Fellow (1990)[1]
ACM Fellow (2007)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
Artificial intelligence
InstitutionsStanford University
United States Air Force
Doctoral advisorHerbert A. Simon
Doctoral students
Ramanathan V. Guha
Websiteksl-web.stanford.edu/people/eaf

Edward Albert Feigenbaum (born January 20, 1936) is a computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence, and with Raj Reddy he won the 1994 ACM Turing Award.[4] He is often called the "father of expert systems".[5][6][7][8]

Education and early life

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Feigenbaum was born in Weehawken, New Jersey in 1936 to a culturally Jewish family, and moved to nearby North Bergen, where he lived until the age of 16, when he left to start college.[9][10] His hometown did not have a secondary school of its own, and so he chose Weehawken High School for its college preparatory program.[10][11] He was inducted into his high school's hall of fame in 1996.[12]

Feigenbaum completed his undergraduate degree (1956), and a Ph.D. (1960),[2][13][14] at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University). In his PhD thesis, carried out under the supervision of Herbert A. Simon, he developed EPAM, one of the first computer models of how people learn.[15]

During undergrad years, he took a graduate-level course called "Ideas and Social Change" taught by James March. March introduced him to Herbert Simon. Feigenbaum took a course "Mathematical Models in the Social Sciences" taught by Simon, where Simon announced the Logic Theorist with "Over the Christmas holidays, Al Newell and I invented a thinking machine." Simon gave Feigenbaum a manual of IBM 701, which he read in one night. Feigenbaum later called it a "born-again experience".[16]

Career and research

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Feigenbaum completed a Fulbright fellowship at the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom) and in 1960 went to the University of California, Berkeley, to teach in the School of Business Administration. He joined the Stanford University faculty in 1965 as one of the founders of its computer science department.[17] He was the director of the Stanford Computation Center from 1965 to 1968. He established the Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Stanford University. Important projects that Feigenbaum was involved in include systems in medicine, as ACME, MYCIN, SUMEX, and Dendral. He also co-founded companies IntelliCorp and Teknowledge.

Teknowledge was founded in July 1981 by 20 computer scientists from Stanford University, MIT, and the Rand Corporation. The company's staff "represent about 1/3 of the world's high-level expertise in the design and development of knowledge systems". Its aim was to allow people without training in knowledge-engineering technology to use it for commercial and industrial applications.[18]

In 2000, Feigenbaum became a Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Stanford University. His former doctoral students include Peter Karp,[3] Niklaus Wirth,[2] and Alon Halevy.[2]

Honors and awards

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Works

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References

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  1. ^ Elected AAAI Fellows
  2. ^ a b c d e Edward Albert Feigenbaum at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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  4. ^ David Alan Grier. (Oct.-Dec. 2013). "Edward Feigenbaum [interview]." Annals of the History of Computing. p. 74-81.
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  10. ^ 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."
  11. ^ 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."
  12. ^ Hague, Jim. "Academic awards aplenty; Weehawken honors top students, inducts Pasquale into Hall of Fame" Archived 2018-03-15 at the Wayback Machine, Hudson Reporter, May 13, 2000. Accessed October 23, 2015. "Edward Feigenbaum (Class of '53) in 1996"
  13. ^ Edward A. Feigenbaum at the AI Genealogy Project.
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