Patrick Winston

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Patrick Henry Winston (born February 5, 1943 in Peoria , Illinois - † July 19, 2019 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was an American computer scientist who headed the AI lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for many years .

Life

Winston studied at MIT, where he made his bachelor's degree in 1965 and his master's degree in electrical engineering in 1967. In 1970 he did his doctorate there under Marvin Minsky at the AI-Lab, with a thesis on computer learning ( Learning structural descriptions from examples ). From 1970 he was at MIT, whose AI lab he headed from 1972 to 1997, succeeding Marvin Minsky. There he was Ford Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Learning .

In 2009 he headed the Genesis Group (an interdisciplinary group of neuroscientists, linguists, computer scientists and others to study intelligence), the EWall Group (to study the visualization of information, for example for television, where he also works with architects) and propagated a new research field Computational Politics . He has also worked as a consultant for several companies and is co-founder and chairman of the software company Ascent Technology.

Winston was the author of several textbooks, including a standard work on artificial intelligence and Lisp . He also wrote several books on programming languages.

He was on the Naval Research Advisory Committee several times, from 1997 to 2000 as chairman. He was President of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

He was a hobby carpenter who, for example, made the furniture in his office himself.

David Waltz is one of his doctoral students .

Fonts

  • Artificial Intelligence, Addison-Wesley 1987 (English original: Artificial Intelligence, Addison-Wesley 1977, 1981, 1984, 3rd edition 1992)
  • with Berthold Klaus Paul Horn : Lisp, Addison-Wesley, 1981, 3rd edition 1989
  • with Sundar Narasimhan On to Java , Addison-Wesley 1996
  • On to Smalltalk, Addison-Wesley 1998
  • On to C, Addison-Wesley 1994
  • On to C ++, Addison-Wesley 1994
  • with Richard Henry Brown (Editor): Artificial Intelligence- an MIT Perspective, MIT Press 1979
  • as editor: The psychology of computer vision, McGraw Hill 1975
  • with Karen Prendergast (editor): The AI ​​business: the commercial uses of artificial intelligence, MIT Press 1984

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Who is who in Frontier Science and Technology 1984
  2. ↑ Professor Patrick Winston, former director of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, dies at 76 mit.edu, accessed July 20, 2019
  3. ↑ He was succeeded by Rodney Brooks , known for shifting AI priorities towards robotics. In 2003, he merged the AI ​​Lab into the CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab).
personal data
SURNAME Winston, Patrick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winston, Patrick Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Peoria , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH 19th July 2019
Place of death Boston , Massachusetts