Ken Forbus
Kenneth "Ken" D. Forbus is an American computer scientist in the field of artificial intelligence and cognitive scientist.
Forbus received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984 in the Artificial Intelligence group with Gerald Jay Sussman (Qualitative Process Theory). He led the Artificial Intelligence group at the Beckman Institute of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before becoming a professor at Northwestern University .
It deals with qualitative thinking and modeling (qualitative process theory), spatial thinking, analog thinking and learning, learning natural language, automatic understanding of sketches, and the implementation in corresponding computer programs.
With Dedre Gentner he developed a formalized system for analog thinking, the Structure-Mapping Engine (SEM).
In the 1980s he worked on the STEAMER project by Bolt, Beranek and Newman and has had an interest in intelligent learning systems and learning environments ever since.
In 1992 he became a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and was its President in 2011 and he is a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society and the Association for Computing Machinery .
In 2011 he received a Humboldt Research Award with which he was at the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg in Delmenhorst (with Dedre Gentner) and at the University of Bremen (with Christian Freksa ).
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Ken Forbus in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Forbus, Ken |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Forbus, Kenneth D .; Forbus, Ken (nickname) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist in the field of artificial intelligence and cognitive scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |