Richard Fikes
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Richard Fikes | |
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Born | American | October 4, 1942
Alma mater | Carnegie Mellon University |
Known for | STRIPS, Shakey the robot, KIF |
Awards | AAAI Fellow |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Artificial intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning |
Thesis | A Heuristic Program for Solving Problems Stated as Nondeterministic Procedures (1968) |
Doctoral advisor | Allen Newell[1] |
Doctoral students | Alon Halevy |
Website | profiles |
Richard Earl Fikes (born October 4, 1942) is a computer scientist and Professor (Research) Emeritus in the
Early life and education
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Fikes was born in Mobile, Alabama, and lived most of his early life in San Antonio, Texas. He graduated from Sam Houston High School (San Antonio, Texas) in 1960, received a B.A. degree in mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1963, and received an M.A. degree in mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1965. Fikes received his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1968.[3]
Career
Fikes' research activities have primarily been in developing techniques for effectively representing and using knowledge in computer systems—a sub-field of artificial intelligence generally known as
Fikes retired from his positions of Professor (Research) in the
Memberships and awards
Fikes has published numerous articles in journals and conference proceedings, and has also served as editor of several professional journals in artificial intelligence and related areas. Fikes has also chaired, co-chaired, organized, or served on the program committee of numerous professional conferences and symposia. In 1990 he was elected as a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.[6]
References
- ^ Richard Fikes at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "More data needed to determine how government is using private phone records". USA Today. 13 May 2006. Retrieved 13 April 2011.
- ^ "Richard Fikes". Stanford University. Retrieved 2012-02-10.
- ^ Fikes, Richard E (April 1971). "Monitored Execution of Robot Plans Produced by STRIPS" (PDF). SRI International. Retrieved 2012-02-10.
- ^ "Ontolingua Home Page". Ksl.stanford.edu. 2008-01-22. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ^ "Elected AAAI Fellows". AAAI. Retrieved 2024-01-01.