Herbert trained
Herbert Leo Gelernter (born December 17, 1929 in Brooklyn , New York City , † May 28, 2015 ) was an American physicist and computer scientist .
Life
Learned, attended Brooklyn College with a bachelor's degree in 1951 and received his doctorate in nuclear physics from the University of Rochester in 1956 (The two-nucleon interaction at high energies and the Lévy-Potential) . From 1956 he was a physicist at IBM Research in New York, where he was in the group for automata theory from 1958 to 1960. In 1960/61 he was a visiting scientist at CERN . From 1964 to 1966 he was at IBM Research Manager of the Physics and Computer Applications research group. From 1966 he was Professor of Computer Science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY), where he stayed for the rest of his career. In 1972/73 he was at the Weizmann Institute .
He deals with computer applications in nuclear physics (online data acquisition), chemistry and biomedicine, mathematical biophysics and AI . At SUNY he developed an expert system for synthesis in organic chemistry (Synchem).
In the 1950s he worked at IBM with programs for automatic proofs in geometry. For this he developed a Fortran version for list processing (FLPL) with Carl Gerberich at IBM on the advice of John McCarthy . She played a role in the prehistory of Lisp . With this work he was a pioneer of artificial intelligence.
He has been married since 1952 and has three children. His son David Gelernter is also a well-known computer scientist.
Web links
- Stony Brook University website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004.
- ^ John McCarty Lisp prehistory
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Learned, Herbert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Skilled, Herbert Leo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist and physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brooklyn , New York City , New York , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 28, 2015 |