Edward Feigenbaum

Author

Grier, D.A.

Author_Institution

George Washington Univ., Washington, DC, USA

Volume

35

Issue

4

fYear

2013

fDate

Oct.-Dec. 2013

Firstpage

74

Lastpage

81

Abstract

Edward Feigenbaum, the recipient of the 2013 Pioneer Award, is one of the founders of the field of artificial intelligence and has been one of its leaders for more than 50 years. He became aware of the birth of AI when he was an undergraduate at Carnegie Tech (later, Carnegie Mellon University). Continuing to graduate school there, he was mentored by Herbert Simon, and he also collaborated with Allen Newell. His career has taken him from Carnegie to the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, RAND, and the Pentagon. Feigenbaum has also authored and coedited several seminal AI books: Computers and Thought (1963), The Fifth Generation (1983), and the four-volume Handbook of Artificial Intelligence (1980s). In this interview, David Alan Grier and Feigenbaum talk about his career, his mentor Herbert Simon, and the development of AI.

Keywords

artificial intelligence; biographies; Berkeley; Carnegie Mellon University; Carnegie Tech; Computers and Thought; Edward Feigenbaum; Handbook of Artificial Intelligence; Pentagon; RAND; Stanford University; The Fifth Generation; University of California; artificial intelligence; graduate school; seminal AI books; Awards; Feigenbaum, Edward; Interviews; Allen Newell; Awards; Edward; Edward Feigenbaum; Feigenbaum; Fifth Generation Project; Herbert Simon; Interviews; artificial intelligence; computer-human interfaces; expert systems; history of computing; human-computer interaction; knowledge engineering; machine learning;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1058-6180

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MAHC.2013.49

Filename

6674032