Edward Feigenbaum

Feigenbaum was born in Weehawken, New Jersey in 1936 to a culturally Jewish family, and moved to nearby North Bergen, where he lived until the age of 16, when he left to start college.{{cite news|last=Len Shustek|title=An Interview with Ed Feigenbaum|url=http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/6/92472-an-interview-with-ed-feigenbaum/fulltext|access-date=14 October 2013|newspaper=Communications of the ACM}}Knuth, Don. [http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2012/04/102658162-05-01-acc.pdf "Oral History of Edward Feigenbaum], Computer History Museum, 2007. Accessed October 23, 2015. "I was born in Weehawken, New Jersey, which is a town on the Palisades opposite New York. In fact, it’s the place where the Lincoln Tunnel dives under the water and comes up in New York. Then my parents moved up the Palisades four miles to a town called North Bergen, and there I lived until I was 16 and went off to Carnegie Tech." His hometown did not have a secondary school of its own, and so he chose Weehawken High School for its college preparatory program.Lederberg, Joshua. [https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/access/BBALYP.pdf "How DENDRAL was conceived and born"], United States National Library of Medicine, November 5, 1987. Accessed October 23, 2015. "I became an expert on its use. I even remember dragging it with me miles on the bus to Weehawken High School, heavy as it was, just to show off my skill with this marvelous technology that no other kid in the high school knew anything about." He was inducted into his high school's hall of fame in 1996.Hague, Jim. [http://www.hudsonreporter.com/view/full_story/2362426/article-Academic-awards-aplenty--Weehawken-honors-top-students--inducts-Pasquale-into-Hall-of-Fame "Academic awards aplenty; Weehawken honors top students, inducts Pasquale into Hall of Fame"], Hudson Reporter'', May 13, 2000. Accessed October 23, 2015. "Edward Feigenbaum (Class of '53) in 1996"

Feigenbaum completed his undergraduate degree (1956), and a Ph.D. (1960),{{MathGenealogy |id=61956 |title=Edward Albert Feigenbaum}}{{AIGenealogy |id=300 |title=Edward A. Feigenbaum}}{{Cite journal|title=ProQuest Document ID 301899261 |journal=ProQuest Dissertations and Theses |id={{ProQuest|301899261}} }} at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University). In his PhD thesis, carried out under the supervision of Herbert A. Simon, he developed EPAM, one of the first computer models of how people learn.{{cite web|url=http://cdn.calisphere.org/data/13030/hc/kt500039hc/files/kt500039hc.pdf |title=Guide to the Edward A. Feigenbaum Papers |publisher=Stanford University |year=2010 |page=2 |access-date=September 12, 2011}}

During undergrad years, he took a graduate-level course called "Ideas and Social Change" taught by James March. March introduced him to Herbert Simon. Feigenbaum took a course "Mathematical Models in the Social Sciences" taught by Simon, where Simon announced the Logic Theorist with "Over the Christmas holidays, Al Newell and I invented a thinking machine." Simon gave Feigenbaum a manual of IBM 701, which he read in one night. Feigenbaum later called it a "born-again experience".{{Cite journal |last=McCorduck |first=Pamela |date=2022-01-01 |title=The Scientific Life of Edward A. Feigenbaum |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9714194 |journal=IEEE Annals of the History of Computing |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=123–128 |doi=10.1109/MAHC.2022.3145216 |issn=1058-6180}}

Feigenbaum completed a Fulbright fellowship at the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom) and in 1960 went to the University of California, Berkeley, to teach in the School of Business Administration. He joined the Stanford University faculty in 1965 as one of the founders of its computer science department.{{cite web |url=https://library.stanford.edu/collections/edward-feigenbaum-papers|title=Edward A. Feigenbaum Papers|publisher=Stanford University|year=2012}} He was the director of the Stanford Computation Center from 1965 to 1968. He established the Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Stanford University. Important projects that Feigenbaum was involved in include systems in medicine, as ACME, MYCIN, SUMEX, and Dendral. He also co-founded companies IntelliCorp and Teknowledge.

Teknowledge was founded in July 1981 by 20 computer scientists from Stanford University, MIT, and the Rand Corporation. The company's staff "represent about 1/3 of the world's high-level expertise in the design and development of knowledge systems". Its aim was to allow people without training in knowledge-engineering technology to use it for commercial and industrial applications.{{Cite journal |date=April 1986 |title=Expert Profiles |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5006509 |journal=IEEE Expert |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=114–116 |doi=10.1109/MEX.1986.5006509 |issn=0885-9000}}

In 2000, Feigenbaum became a Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at Stanford University. His former doctoral students include Peter Karp, Niklaus Wirth, and Alon Halevy.

• 1984: Selected as one of the initial fellows of the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI)
• 1986: Elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for pioneering contributions to knowledge engineering and expert systems technology, and for leadership in education and technology of applied artificial intelligence.
• 1994: Turing Award jointly with Raj Reddy for "pioneering the design and construction of large scale artificial intelligence systems, demonstrating the practical importance and potential commercial impact of artificial intelligence technology".
• 1997: U.S. Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Award
• 2007: Inducted as fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM){{Cite web|url=https://awards.acm.org/award_winners/feigenbaum_4167235|title=Edward A Feigenbaum|website=awards.acm.org|language=en|access-date=2019-08-24}}{{Cite web|url=https://entitledopinions.stanford.edu/edward-feigenbaum-artificial-intelligence|title=Edward Feigenbaum on Artificial Intelligence {{!}} Entitled Opinions|website=entitledopinions.stanford.edu|access-date=2019-08-24|archive-date=2022-11-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221109184705/https://entitledopinions.stanford.edu/edward-feigenbaum-artificial-intelligence|url-status=dead}}
• 2011: IEEE Intelligent Systems [http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ComputingNow/homepage/2011/0811/rW_IS_AIsHallofFame.pdf AI's Hall of Fame] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111216235804/http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ComputingNow/homepage/2011/0811/rW_IS_AIsHallofFame.pdf |date=2011-12-16 }} for "significant contributions to the field of AI and intelligent systems".{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1109/MIS.2011.64 | title = AI's Hall of Fame | url = http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ComputingNow/homepage/2011/0811/rW_IS_AIsHallofFame.pdf | journal = IEEE Intelligent Systems | publisher = IEEE Computer Society | volume = 26 | issue = 4 | pages = 5–15 | year = 2011 | access-date = 2015-01-06 | archive-date = 2011-12-16 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111216235804/http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ComputingNow/homepage/2011/0811/rW_IS_AIsHallofFame.pdf | url-status = dead }}
• 2012. Made fellow of the Computer History Museum "for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence and expert systems."{{cite web

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• 2013. IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award for "pioneering work in Artificial Intelligence, including development of the basic principles and methods of knowledge-based systems and their practical applications".

• {{cite book |editor1-last=Feigenbaum |editor1-first=Edward |editor2-last=Feldman |editor2-first=Julian |title=Computers and thought : a collection of articles |date=1963 |publisher=McGraw-Hill |location=New York |edition=1 |oclc=593742426 }}{{cite web |title=This week in The History of AI at AIWS.net – Edward Feigenbaum and Julian Feldman published "Computers and Thought" |url=https://aiws.net/the-history-of-ai/this-week-in-the-history-of-ai-at-aiws-net-edward-feigenbaum-and-julian-feldman-published-computers-and-thought-2/ |website=AIWS.net |access-date=5 May 2022}}{{cite web |title=Feigenbaum & Feldman Issue "Computers and Thought," the First Anthology on Artificial Intelligence |url=https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=4329 |website=History of Information |access-date=5 May 2022}}{{cite book |last1=Feigenbaum |first1=Edward A. |last2=Feldman |first2=Julian |title=Computers and Thought |url=https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/601134 |publisher=McGraw-Hill, Inc. |access-date=5 May 2022 |date=1963|isbn=9780070203709 }}
• {{cite book |last1=Barr |first1=Avron |last2=Feigenbaum |first2=Edward A. |title=The Handbook of artificial intelligence, volume 1 |date=1981 |publisher=HeurisTech Press; William Kaufmann |location=Stanford, CA; Los Altos, CA |isbn=978-0-86576-004-2 |url=https://archive.org/details/handbookofartific01barr/}}
• {{cite book |last1=Barr |first1=Avron |last2=Feigenbaum |first2=Edward A. |title=The Handbook of artificial intelligence, volume 2 |date=1982 |publisher=HeurisTech Press; William Kaufmann |location=Stanford, CA; Los Altos, CA |isbn=978-0-86576-006-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/handbookofartific02barr/}}
• {{cite book |last1=Cohen |first1=Paul R. |last2=Feigenbaum |first2=Edward A. |title=The Handbook of artificial intelligence, volume 3 |date=1982 |publisher=HeurisTech Press; William Kaufmann |location=Stanford, CA; Los Altos, CA |isbn=978-0-86576-007-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/handbookofartific03cohe}}
• {{cite book |last1=Barr |first1=Avron |last2=Cohen |first2=Paul R. |last3=Feigenbaum |first3=Edward A. (Edward Albert) |title=Handbook of artificial intelligence, volume 4 |date=1989 |publisher=Addison Wesley |location=Reading, MA |isbn=978-0-201-51731-6 |url=https://archive.org/details/handbookofartific04barr}}
• {{Cite book |last1=Feigenbaum |first1=Edward A. |title=The fifth generation: artificial intelligence and Japan's computer challenge to the world |last2=McCorduck |first2=Pamela |date=1983 |publisher=Addison-Wesley |isbn=978-0-201-11519-2 |location=Reading, Mass}}
• {{Cite book |last1=Feigenbaum |first1=Edward A. |title=The rise of the expert company: how visionary companies are using artificial intelligence to achieve higher productivity and profits |last2=McCorduck |first2=Pamela |last3=Nii |first3=H. P. |date=1988 |publisher=Macmillan London |isbn=978-0-333-49659-6 |location=London}}

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