Cordell Green

{{short description|American computer scientist}}

{{BLP primary sources|date=September 2019}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Cordell Green

| birth_name = Claude Cordell Green

| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1941}}

| education = Rice University
Stanford University

| awards = Grace Murray Hopper Award (1985)

| fields = Computer science

| workplaces = Stanford University
Kestrel Institute

| thesis_title = The Application of Theorem Proving to Question-Answering Systems

| thesis_year = 1969

| thesis_url = https://www.kestrel.edu/home/people/green/publications/green-thesis.pdf

| doctoral_advisor = John McCarthy

}}

Cordell Green (born 1941) was an American computer scientist who was the director and chief scientist of the Kestrel Institute.

Green received a B.A. and B.S. from Rice University. At Stanford University, he earned an M.S.{{cite web |title=Dr. Cordell Green, Director at Kestrel Institute |url=https://www.kestrel.edu/home/people/green/ |publisher=Kestrel Institute |accessdate=April 28, 2019}} and then a PhD in 1969.{{cite news |title='Elitism' called a danger as computer field grows |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104102242/elitism-called-a-danger-as-computer/ |access-date=June 20, 2022 |work=Chicago Tribune |date=August 1, 1979 |pages=10 |via=newspapers.com}}

Green worked at the DARPA Information Processing Techniques Office, where he helped to plan the Speech Understanding Research Project and also served as an assistant to Lawrence Roberts, who was then creating ARPANET. At Stanford, Green was a lecturer and assistant professor of computer science and was part of the Artificial Intelligence Group at the Stanford Research Institute (now known as SRI International). Later, he worked at Systems Control, Inc., a research firm in California, as their chief scientist for computer systems.

In 1985, Green was awarded the Grace Murray Hopper Award for establishing the theoretical basis of the field of logic programming.{{cite web |title=Cordell Green |url=https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/green_1063429 |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |accessdate=April 28, 2019}} In 2002, he was awarded the Stevens Award for "contributions to methods for software and systems development". He is a fellow of the ACM, AAAI, and ASE.