C. Raymond Perrault

Charles Raymond Perrault is a Canadian-American computer scientist specializing in artificial intelligence and mathematical linguistics.

Perrault graduated from McGill University with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1975 . From 1974 he was at the University of Toronto , where he became a professor. From 1983 he was at the Artificial Intelligence Center of SRI International , which he headed from 1988 to 2017. There he was one of the leading scientists (from 2002 to 2009 Principal Co-Investigator) of the CALO (Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes) project for technologies for an intelligent office assistant who learns through interaction with human colleagues. In 2007 the team received the DARPA Award for Excellence as a Performer. He also founded the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University.

In 2011 he received the Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award . He is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). He was President of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) and the Association for Computational Linguistics.

From 2001 to 2010 he was co-editor of Artificial Intelligence .

Fonts (selection)

• An Application Of Default Logic To Speech Act Theory, in PR Cohen (ed.), Intentions in communications, MIT Press 1990
• On The Mathematical Properties Of Linguistic Theories, Proceedings of the 21st annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics 1983, pp. 98-105

Web links

• SRI International on the Walker Prize for Perrault
• Website at SRI