Ronald J. Brachman

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Ronald J. "Ron" Brachman (* 1949 ) is an American computer scientist who deals with artificial intelligence (especially knowledge representation ).

Brachman received his doctorate in 1977 under William Aaron Woods (Bill Woods) at Harvard University (A structural paradigm for representing knowledge). He then went to Bolt Beranek and Newman , where his dissertation resulted in the knowledge representation system KL-ONE (which is also the root of the description logic). In 1981 he moved to the Fairchild Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research in Palo Alto, where he and Hector Levesque and Richard Fikes developed the Krypton hybrid representation and reasoning system (and its smaller version Kandel). In 1985 he went to ATT Laboratories, where he set up an AI research group and stayed until 2002. There he led the development of the knowledge representation system CLASSIC, which formed the basis for the PROSE product configuration system. In 1994 he became director of the Software and Systems Research Laboratory and rose to the management of ATT Labs.

He was then director of information technology at DARPA . During this time he initiated the Personal Assistant that Learn (PAL) program, which, among other things, led to the Siri assistant in Apple's iPhone.

From 2005 he was Associate Director of Yahoo Labs and from 2012 to 2016 he was Chief Scientist of Yahoo and Director of Yahoo Labs, which was subsequently dissolved as part of the decentralization of research.

From 2016 he was director of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute (a joint venture between the Technion in Haifa and Cornell University). He is also a professor of computer science at Cornell University .

In 2007 he received the Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award . He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery .

He was President of the AAAI from 2003 to 2006 . Before that he was secretary and treasurer of the IJCAI for nine years .

Fonts

  • with Ray Reiter , Hector Levesque : Knowledge representation. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. 1992
  • with Hector Levesque: Knowledge representation and reasoning. Amsterdam: Elsevier / Morgan Kaufmann 2004

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SURNAME Brachman, Ronald J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brachman, Ron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1949