SPEAKER: EDWARD FEIGENBAUM
Kumagai Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University
ABSTRACT:
In 1995, as part of a larger study of "technology futures" for the Air
Force, I chaired a study on the future of IT. There was also a study of
the applications of IT to the Air Force. This talk gives highlights,
anecdotes, and lessons learned from those studies.
SPEAKER BIO:
He did his Ph.D. at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now CMU) with
Herbert Simon in 1956-59. His early work concerned computer simulation
models in information processing psychology. Later he pioneered the
development of expert systems, with colleagues Joshua Lederberg and
Bruce Buchanan. In the 1980s, he participated in the start up of
several companies that commercialized expert systems technology.
In the 1980s he co-edited the four volume Handbook of Artificial
Intelligence, and coauthored two "popular" books about AI and expert
sytems: The Fifth Generation; and The Rise of the Expert Company.
In 1986, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
The Future of Information Technology
I had the privilege of serving the US Air Force as its Chief Scientist
from 1994 to 1997. Why did the Air Force ask a computer scientist to do
this job? Of all of the technologies of relevance to the Air Force, IT
was seen as the most critical at this time.
Dr. Feigenbaum is the Kumagai Professor of Computer Science at Stanford
University. He does directs research projects on large knowledge base
technology, information security, and the software industry.