Ken Forbus
Ken Forbus | |
|---|---|
| Academic background | |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, MS, PhD) |
| Doctoral advisor | Gerald Jay Sussman |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Computer science |
| Sub-discipline | Artificial intelligence |
| Institutions | UIUC Northwestern University |
| Doctoral students | Boi Faltings, Morteza Dehghani |
Kenneth Dale "Ken" Forbus is an American computer scientist working as the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Education at Northwestern University.[1]
Education
[edit | edit source]Forbus earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science, Master of Science in computer science, and PhD in artificial intelligence from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2]
Career
[edit | edit source]Forbus is notable for his work in qualitative process theory, automated sketch understanding, and automated analogical reasoning. He also developed the structure mapping engine based on the structure-mapping theory of Dedre Gentner. He is a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the Cognitive Science Society.[3][4]
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