Edward Feigenbaum Explained

Ed Feigenbaum
Birth Name:Edward Albert Feigenbaum
Birth Date:January 20, 1936
Birth Place:Weehawken, New Jersey
Nationality:American
Field:Computer science
Artificial intelligence
Work Institution:Stanford University
United States Air Force
Alma Mater:Carnegie Mellon University (BS, PhD)
Doctoral Advisor:Herbert A. Simon
Known For:Expert systems
EPAM
DENDRAL project
Feigenbaum test
Prizes:Turing Award (1994)
Computer Pioneer Award
AAAI Fellow (1990)[1]
ACM Fellow (2007)

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.[2] He is often called the "father of expert systems."[3] [4] [5] [6]

Education and early life

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.[7] [8] His hometown did not have a secondary school of its own, and so he chose Weehawken High School for its college preparatory program.[8] [9] He was inducted into his high school's hall of fame in 1996.[10]

Feigenbaum completed his undergraduate degree (1956), and a Ph.D. (1960),[11] 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.[12]

Career and research

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.[13] 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.

Since 2000 Feigenbaum is a Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Stanford University. His former doctoral students include Peter Karp, Niklaus Wirth, and Alon Halevy.

Honors and awards

Works

Notes and References

  1. Elected AAAI Fellows
  2. David Alan Grier. (Oct.-Dec. 2013). "Edward Feigenbaum [interview]." Annals of the History of Computing. p. 74-81.
  3. Web site: Edward Feigenbaum 2012 Fellow . 2012-01-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130509235811/http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/bios/Edward,Feigenbaum/ . 2013-05-09 . dead .
  4. Book: Feigenbaum. Edward A. . McCorduck. Pamela. 1983. The Fifth Generation: Artificial Intelligence and Japan's Computer Challenge to the World. registration. Addison Wesley Publishing Company. 9780201115192 .
  5. Web site: The Age of Intelligent Machines: Knowledge Processing--From File Servers to Knowledge Servers by Edward Feigenbaum . 2013-05-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160610052220/http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-age-of-intelligent-machines-knowledge-processing-from-file-servers-to-knowledge-servers . 2016-06-10 . dead .
  6. Feigenbaum. Edward A.. 2003. Some challenges and grand challenges for computational intelligence. Journal of the ACM. 50. 1. 32–40. 10.1145/602382.602400. 15379263.
  7. News: Len Shustek. An Interview with Ed Feigenbaum. 14 October 2013. Communications of the ACM.
  8. [Donald Knuth|Knuth, Don]
  9. [Joshua Lederberg|Lederberg, Joshua]
  10. 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"
  11. ProQuest Document ID 301899261 . . .
  12. Web site: Guide to the Edward A. Feigenbaum Papers . . 2010 . 2 . September 12, 2011.
  13. Web site: Edward A. Feigenbaum Papers. Stanford University. 2012.
  14. Web site: Edward A Feigenbaum. awards.acm.org. en. 2019-08-24.
  15. Web site: Edward Feigenbaum on Artificial Intelligence Entitled Opinions. entitledopinions.stanford.edu. 2019-08-24. 2022-11-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20221109184705/https://entitledopinions.stanford.edu/edward-feigenbaum-artificial-intelligence. dead.
  16. 10.1109/MIS.2011.64 . AI's Hall of Fame . . . 26 . 4 . 5–15 . 2011 . 2015-01-06 . 2011-12-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111216235804/http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ComputingNow/homepage/2011/0811/rW_IS_AIsHallofFame.pdf . dead .
  17. Web site: Edward Feigenbaum . Computer History Museum . 2013-05-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130509235811/http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/bios/Edward,Feigenbaum/ . 2013-05-09 . dead .
  18. Web site: This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman published "Computers and Thought" . AIWS.net . 5 May 2022.
  19. Web site: Feigenbaum & Feldman Issue "Computers and Thought," the First Anthology on Artificial Intelligence . History of Information . 5 May 2022.
  20. Book: Feigenbaum . Edward A. . Feldman . Julian . Computers and Thought . Association for Computing Machinery Digital Library . McGraw-Hill, Inc. . 5 May 2022 . 1963. 9780070203709 .

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