Scott Fahlman

Scott Fahlman
Born
Scott Elliott Fahlman

(1948-03-21) March 21, 1948 (age 76)
EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology
B.S., M.S. (1973)
Ph.D. (1977)
Known forAutomated planning and scheduling: blocks world
Semantic networks
Neural networks
Dylan
Common Lisp: CMU Common Lisp
Lucid Inc.
AwardsFellow, American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
Natural language processing
InstitutionsCarnegie Mellon University
ThesisNETL: A System for Representing and Using Real-World Knowledge (1977)
Doctoral advisorGerald Jay Sussman
Other academic advisorsPatrick Winston
Doctoral studentsDavid S. Touretzky
Michael Witbrock
Websitewww.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/ Edit this at Wikidata

Scott Elliott Fahlman (born March 21, 1948) is an American computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute and Computer Science Department. He is notable for early work on automated planning and scheduling in a blocks world, on semantic networks, on neural networks (especially the cascade correlation algorithm), on the programming languages Dylan, and Common Lisp (especially CMU Common Lisp), and he was one of the founders of Lucid Inc. During the period when it was standardized, he was recognized as "the leader of Common Lisp."[1] From 2006 to 2015, Fahlman was engaged in developing a knowledge base named Scone, based in part on his thesis work on the NETL Semantic Network.[2] He also is credited with coining the use of the emoticon.

  1. ^ Gabriel, Richard (1996), Patterns of Software (PDF), Oxford University Press, p. 183, retrieved 2020-01-25
  2. ^ "The Scone Knowledge-Base Project". School of Computer Science. Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved 27 October 2013. Scone is a high-performance, open-source knowledge-base (KB) system intended for use as a component in many different software applications.