Douglas Lenat
Douglas Lenat · Technology & Engineering
Computer & information scientist
1950, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States — 2023, Austin, Texas, United States
United States
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Douglas Lenat was an American computer scientist and a pioneer of artificial intelligence, best known for founding and leading Cyc, a decades-long project to give machines a vast base of encoded common-sense knowledge. Of Jewish background, he also created the AM and Eureko programs on machine discovery and won the first IJCAI Computers and Thought Award. His work shaped the fields of knowledge representation and symbolic AI.
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Computer & information scientist
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