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Edward Feigenbaum

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.[4] He is often called the "father of expert systems."[5][6][7][8]

Ed Feigenbaum

Edward Albert Feigenbaum

(1936-01-20) January 20, 1936
Weehawken, New Jersey

American

Carnegie Mellon University (BS, PhD)

Expert systems
EPAM
DENDRAL project
Feigenbaum test

Turing Award (1994)
Computer Pioneer Award
AAAI Fellow (1990)[1]
ACM Fellow (2007)

Computer science
Artificial intelligence

Stanford University
United States Air Force

Herbert A. Simon

Ramanathan V. Guha

ksl-web.stanford.edu/people/eaf

Education and early life[edit]

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]

1984: Selected as one of the initial fellows of the (ACMI)

American College of Medical Informatics

1986: Elected a member of the for pioneering contributions to knowledge engineering and expert systems technology, and for leadership in education and technology of applied artificial intelligence.

National Academy of Engineering

1994: 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".

Turing Award

1997: U.S. Air Force

Exceptional Civilian Service Award

2007: Inducted as fellow of the (ACM)[17][18]

Association for Computing Machinery

2011: AI's Hall of Fame Archived 2011-12-16 at the Wayback Machine for "significant contributions to the field of AI and intelligent systems".[19]

IEEE Intelligent Systems

2012. Made fellow of the "for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence and expert systems."[20]

Computer History Museum

2013. Computer Pioneer Award for "pioneering work in Artificial Intelligence, including development of the basic principles and methods of knowledge-based systems and their practical applications".

IEEE Computer Society

Feigenbaum, Edward; Feldman, Julian, eds. (1963). Computers and thought : a collection of articles (1 ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill.  593742426.[21][22][23]

OCLC

Barr, Avron; Feigenbaum, Edward A. (1981). . Stanford, CA; Los Altos, CA: HeurisTech Press; William Kaufmann. ISBN 978-0-86576-004-2.

The Handbook of artificial intelligence, volume 1

Barr, Avron; Feigenbaum, Edward A. (1982). . Stanford, CA; Los Altos, CA: HeurisTech Press; William Kaufmann. ISBN 978-0-86576-006-6.

The Handbook of artificial intelligence, volume 2

Cohen, Paul R.; Feigenbaum, Edward A. (1982). . Stanford, CA; Los Altos, CA: HeurisTech Press; William Kaufmann. ISBN 978-0-86576-007-3.

The Handbook of artificial intelligence, volume 3

Barr, Avron; Cohen, Paul R.; Feigenbaum, Edward A. (Edward Albert) (1989). . Reading, MA: Addison Wesley. ISBN 978-0-201-51731-6.

Handbook of artificial intelligence, volume 4