Drew McDermott

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Drew Vincent McDermott (born December 27, 1949 in Madison , Wisconsin ) is an American computer scientist .

McDermott studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a master's degree in 1973 and received his doctorate there in 1976 with Gerald Jay Sussman (Flexibility and Efficiency in a Computer Program for Designing Circuits). From 1976 he was Gibbs Instructor and from 1978 Assistant Professor at Yale University with a full professorship since 1984.

In 1987 he was Rank Xerox Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh and 1987/88 visiting scholar at MIT.

He was initially a supporter of logical formalization in artificial intelligence and dealt with non-monotonous logic. In 1987 he formulated a criticism of this approach with Steven Hanks (Yale Shooting Problem). McDermott also studied robotics and automatic scheduling.

He was the author of a standard work on artificial intelligence with Eugene Charniak and also dealt with the philosophical problem of AI.

He is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

Fonts

  • with Eugene Charniak, Christopher Riesbeck, James Meehan: Artificial Intelligence Programming . Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 1980, 2nd edition 1987
  • with Eugene Charniak: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence . Reading, Mass .: Addison-Wesley 1985.
  • with Steven Hanks: Nonmonotonic logic and temporal projection, Artificial Intelligence, Volume 33, 1987, pp. 379-412
  • A critique of pure reason , Computational Intelligence, Volume 3, 1987, pp. 151-160.
  • A Heuristic Estimator for Means-Ends Analysis in Planning , in: Proc. International Conference on AI Planning Systems, 1996
  • Published in: 'The Planning Domain Definition Language Manual, Yale Computer Science Report 1165 (CVC Report 98-003), 1998
  • Drew McDermott (1999) Using Regression-Match Graphs to Control Search in Planning, Artificial Intelligence, Volume 109, 1999, pp. 111-159
  • Mind and Mechanism , MIT Press 2001

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ Drew McDermott in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME McDermott, Drew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES McDermott, Drew Vincent (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Madison , Wisconsin