Edward Feigenbaum

Name: Edward Albert Feigenbaum

Born: January 20, 1936, in Weehawken, New Jersey USA

Computer-related contributions

• Computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence.
• Often called the "father of expert systems."
• Founded the Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Stanford University.

Significant publications

• The Age of Intelligent Machines: Knowledge Processing--From File Servers to Knowledge Servers.
• Some challenges and grand challenges for computational intelligence.

Honors and awards

• Turing Award (1994).
• U.S. Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Award (1997).
• Inducted into IEEE Intelligent Systems' AI's Hall of Fame (2011).
• Awarded the Fellow Award by the Computer History Museum in California (2012).