James Slagle
James R. (Robert) Slagle (born March 1, 1934 ) is an American computer scientist.
In 1961, in his dissertation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Marvin Minsky, Slagle developed one of the first expert systems , Saint, for symbolic integration ( A heuristic program that solves symbolic integration problems in freshman calculus, Symbolic Automatic Integrator, Saint ). He then worked at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory , the National Institutes of Health , the Naval Research Laboratory and Johns Hopkins University, among others . Since 1984 he has been a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota .
He deals with heuristic programming, game programming and search programs.
Slagle is blind.
Fonts
- Artificial intelligence: the heuristic programming approach , McGraw Hill 1970
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ An article with the same title appeared in Journal of the ACM, Volume 10, 1963, No. 4
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Slagle, James |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Slagle, James Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1934 |