Scott Fahlman
Updated: 09/15/2017 by Computer Hope
Name: Scott E. Fahlman
Born: March 21, 1948
Computer-related contributions
- Fahlman is credited with originating the first smiley emoticon on September 19, 1982.
- Computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University noted for early work on automated planning in a blocks world, on semantic networks, and neural networks.