Peter E. Hart

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Peter E. Hart
Peter Hart in 2005
Alma materStanford University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Scientific career
FieldsArtificial intelligence
InstitutionsSRI International AI Center
Ricoh Innovations
Doctoral advisorThomas M. Cover[1]

Peter E. Hart (born 1941[2]) is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He was chairman and president of Ricoh Innovations, which he founded in 1997. He made significant contributions in the field of computer science in a series of widely cited publications from the years 1967 to 1975 while associated with the Artificial Intelligence Center of SRI International, a laboratory where he also served as director.

Education

Hart studied at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, leading to a BEE degree (1962). He did his graduate studies at Stanford University, where he got his MS (1963) and PhD (1966);[3] Thomas M. Cover was his advisor and discovered[4] & co-published a seminal paper on 1-NN nearest neighbor search.[5]

Career

While at the

Shakey the Robot.[6]

Hart and Richard O. Duda are the authors of "Pattern Classification and Scene Analysis", originally published in 1973. This classic text is a widely cited reference, and the first edition was in print for over 25 years until being superseded by the second edition in 2000.[6]

A strong advocate of artificial intelligence in industry, Hart was the founding director of the Fairchild/Schlumberger Artificial Intelligence Center and co-founder of Syntelligence, a company specializing in expert systems for financial risk analysis.[citation needed]

Hart is currently Group Senior Vice President at the Ricoh Company, Ltd.[citation needed]

Memberships and awards

Hart is an

AAAI Fellow.[6]

References

  1. Nils J. Nilsson (1984). "Introduction to the COMTEX Microfiche Edition of the SRI Artificial Intelligence Center Technical Notes"
    . AI Magazine. Vol. 5, no. 1. p. 43.
  2. ^ "AUT - Úplné zobrazení záznamu". aleph.nkp.cz. Retrieved 2022-10-03.
  3. ^ Sagan, Carl (1980). Machine Intelligence and Robotics: Report of the NASA Study Group (Final Report). p. A-2.
  4. ^ Cover 1982, "This Week's Citation Classic: Nearest Neighbor Pattern Classification", Current Contents
  5. ^ "Nearest neighbor pattern classification", Cover & Hart 1967 (IEEE)
  6. ^ a b c "Peter E. Hart". SRI International. Archived from the original on 2012-10-03. Retrieved 2012-02-05.

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