Nils John Nilsson
Nils John Nilsson | |
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Born | |
Died | April 23, 2019 | (aged 86)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Stanford University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Artificial intelligence |
Institutions | SRI International Stanford University |
Doctoral advisor | Willis Harman[1] |
Doctoral students | Leslie P. Kaelbling[1] |
Nils John Nilsson (February 6, 1933 – April 23, 2019) was an
Early life and education
Nilsson was born in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1933.[2] He received his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1958, and spent much of his career at SRI International, a private research lab spun off from Stanford.[2][3]
Nilsson served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force from 1958 to 1961; he was stationed at the Rome Air Development Center in Rome, New York.[2][3]
Career
SRI International
Starting in 1966, Nilsson, along with
Stanford University
In 1985, Nilsson became a faculty member at Stanford University, in the Computer Science Department.[3] He was chair of the department from 1985 to 1990.[3] He was the Kumagai Professor of Engineering from the foundation of the Chair in around 1991[10] until his retirement, and remained Kumagai Professor Emeritus until his death.[3]
He was the fourth President of the
Awards and memberships
In 2011, Nilsson was inducted into IEEE Intelligent Systems' AI's Hall of Fame for the "significant contributions to the field of AI and intelligent systems".[citation needed]
Personal life
On July 19, 1958, Nilsson married Karen Braucht, with whom he had two children.[2][3] Braucht died in 1991.[2] In 1992 he married Grace Abbott, who had four children from a previous marriage.[2]
Nilsson died on April 23, 2019, at his home in Medford, Oregon, at the age of 86.[2][3]
Selected publications
- — (1982) [1980], Principles of Artificial Intelligence, ISBN 978-3-540-11340-9.
- ISBN 978-1-493-30598-8.
- — (1990), The Mathematical Foundations of Learning Machines, ISBN 978-1-558-60123-9.
- — (1998), Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis, ISBN 978-1-558-60467-4.
- — (2009), The Quest for Artificial Intelligence, ISBN 978-0-521-11639-8.
- — (2014), Understanding Beliefs, ISBN 978-0-262-52643-2.
See also
References
- ^ a b "Nils J. Nilsson". Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved April 29, 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Markoff, John (April 25, 2019). "Nils Nilsson, 86, dies; scientist helped robots find their way". The New York Times. Retrieved April 28, 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Myers, Andrew (April 24, 2019). "Nils Nilsson, pioneer in robotics and artificial intelligence, dies at 86". Stanford.edu. Archived from the original on April 26, 2019. Retrieved April 28, 2019.
- OCLC 11468509.
- OCLC 612190271.
- OCLC 31288015.
- ^ McCarthy, John (1958). "Programs with Common Sense". jmc.stanford.edu. Retrieved May 28, 2022.
- ISSN 0536-1567.
- S2CID 8623866.
- ^ "Thoughts on Becoming the First Kumagai Professor of Engineering" (PDF). Stanford University. March 18, 1991. Retrieved April 30, 2019.
External links
- Nilsson's home page
- Nils John Nilsson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Nils J. Nilsson at the AI Genealogy Project.
- Oral history interview with Nils J. Nilsson, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Nilsson gives an overview of DARPA-sponsored AI research at SRI, including his own work in robotics (especially during the period 1966-1971), research on the Computer Based Consultant, and related research on natural language and speech understanding. He describes the significance and relationship of robotics to the larger field of AI, particularly the intellectual problems it addressed and the enabling technologies it helped develop.