David Ferrucci is an American computer scientist who served as the principal investigator of a team of IBM and academic researchers and engineers between 2007 and 2011[1] to the development of the Watson computer system, which won the television quiz show Jeopardy!.
Ferrucci graduated from Manhattan College, with a B.S. degree in biology and from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in 1994 with a Ph.D. degree in computer science specializing in knowledge representation and reasoning.[2] He joined IBM's Thomas J. Watson in 1995 and left in 2012 to join Bridgewater Associates.[3] He is also the founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist of Elemental Cognition, a venture exploring a new field of study called "natural learning", which Ferrucci describes as "artificial intelligence that understands the world the way people do."[4]
Ferrucci is interviewed in the 2018 documentary on artificial intelligence Do You Trust This Computer? In this documentary, he accurately predicts the emergence of systems in 3 to 4 years that can autonomously learn how to learn things.
- ^ Ferrucci, D, et al. (2010), "Building Watson: An Overview of the DeepQA Project", AI Magazine (AI Magazine) 31 (3), retrieved 2011-02-19
- ^ "David Ferrucci - IEEE Life Sciences". Archived from the original on 2014-01-16. Retrieved 2014-01-16.
- ^ "David Ferrucci: Life After Watson". 2013-05-06.
- ^ "Elemental Cognition".