Edward Feigenbaum

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Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

New Haven

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5 total works indexed

1. Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines

   · 1953 · cited 29,958x

2. Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being.

   · 2000 · cited 28,571x

3. The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior

   · 2000 · cited 24,792x

4. Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers

   · 1938 · cited 24,546x

5. THE USE OF LEAD CITRATE AT HIGH pH AS AN ELECTRON-OPAQUE STAIN IN ELECTRON MICROSCOPY

   · 1963 · cited 18,994x

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Quotes

• “In 1994 an amazing thing happened. The phone rings and it is Professor Sheila Widnall of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics of MIT. She said, "Do you know anyone who wants to be Chief Scientist of the Air Force? And by the way, if you are interested let me know." She had been chosen to be Secretary of the Air Force, and she was looking for her Chief Scientist. I thought about it briefly, told her yes, and stayed for three years.”
• “My job was to be a window on science for the Chief of Staff of the Air Force. I was the first person to be asked to be Chief Scientist who was not an Aero-Astro person, a weapons person, or from the physical sciences. There had not been any computer scientists before me.”
• “I did two big things. One was consciousness-raising in the Air Force about software. The one big report I wrote, at the end of my term, was a report called, It’s a Software-First World. The Air Force had not realized that. They probably still do not think that. They think it is an airframe-based world.”
• “It was a rather unsettling experience to come back to Stanford. After playing a role on a big stage, all of a sudden you come back and your colleagues ask,”
• “So at the beginning of 2000, I retired. Since then I have been leading a wonderful life doing whatever I please. Now that I have a lot more time than I had before, I’m getting geekier and geekier. It feels like I’m 10 years old again, getting back involved with details of computing.”
• “The great thing about being retired is not that you work less hard, but that what you do is inner-directed. The world has so many things you want to know before you’re out of here that you have a lot to do.”

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Key facts

Born

Edward Albert Feigenbaum , ( 1936-01-20 ) January 20, 1936 (age 90) , Weehawken, New Jersey

Education

Carnegie Mellon University ( BS , MS , PhD )

Known for

Expert systems , EPAM , DENDRAL project , Feigenbaum test

Awards

Turing Award (1994), Computer Pioneer Award , AAAI Fellow (1990) , ACM Fellow (2007)

Fields

Computer science , Artificial intelligence

Institutions

Stanford University , United States Air Force

Doctoral advisor

Herbert A. Simon

Doctoral students

Ramanathan V. Guha Alon Halevy Peter Karp Niklaus Wirth

Website

ksl-web .stanford .edu /people /eaf

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Edward

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Weehawken

Occupation

inventor

Employer

Stanford University

Languages spoken

English language

Award

ACM Fellow

Doctoral advisor

Herbert Simon

Field of work

health informatics

Official website

ksl-web.stanford.edu/people/eaf

Image

27. Dr. Edward A. Feigenbaum 1994-1997.jpg

Work location

Stanford

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