Hear the inside stories about the creation of artificial intelligence with one of the experts, Ed Feigenbaum (CMU Alum, Stanford Professor, pioneer in Artificial Intelligence and an ACM Turing Award recipient). Come hear not about the technical details, but the "human story" of how decisions were made and what succeeded & what didn't. It'll be a fireside chat but you can ask questions too. This series is open to the public, so please invite your friends, share on facebook or post of twitter. We want to get the word out.
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CMU INSIDE STORIES SERIES
CMU Inside Stories is a new series of conversations with prominent Carnegie Mellon University alumni & other experts. Here is an opportunity to hear them talk about experiences that shaped their careers and ideas that formed their thinking. The purpose is to advance the discourse of ideas that matter. Distinguished CMU graduates create and lead ground-breaking enterprises, originate new fields of knowledge, and pioneer the fields of Science, Business, Technology, the Arts and Humanities.
ED FEIGENBAUM
Our inaugural speaker is Edward Feigenbaum (born in 1936, in New Jersey) is an interdisciplinary computer scientist who pioneered Expert Systems and knowledge-based approaches to artificial intelligence. He completed his undergraduate degree and Ph.D. at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University). In his Ph.D. thesis, mentored by Herbert Simon, he developed EPAM (Elementary Perceiver and Memorizer), one of the first computer models of human learning.
At Stanford, he founded the Heuristic Programming Project (later, Knowledge Systems Laboratory), directed Stanford's Computation Center, and chaired its Computer Science Department.
For his research, he received the 1994 ACM Turing Award, the most prestigious award in computer science, jointly with Raj Reddy, "for pioneering the design and construction of large scale artificial intelligence systems, demonstrating the practical importance and potential commercial impact of artificial intelligence technology". He has been elected to both the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The biennial Feigenbaum Prize, established in his honor by the International Conference on Expert Systems, is now administered by the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
In 1994-97, he served as Chief Scientist of the Air Force, and received the U.S. Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Award.
He was co-founder of three Silicon Valley start-ups, and also served as a Director of the Sperry Corporation. He wrote or edited several best sellers in Artificial Intelligence and computer technology, including Computers and Thought, The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence, and The Fifth Generation.
Please contact me at
anigam@yahoo.com if you have any questions. My cell is 415-806-1450.
