Name: Douglas B. Lenat

Born: 1950

  • CEO of Cycorp, Inc. in Austin, Texas.
  • Prominent researcher in artificial intelligence, especially machine learning (with his Eurisko and AM programs) and “ontological engineering” (with his Cyc program at Cycorp and MCC).
  • Contributed to research of blackboard systems and knowledge representation.

Significant publications

  • Knowledge-Based Systems in Artificial Intelligence. (1982).
  • Building Expert Systems. (1983).

Honors and awards

  • IJCAI Computers and Thought Award (1977).
  • One of the original Fellows of the AAAI (American Association for Artificial Intelligence).

Quotes

“Once you have a truly massive amount of information integrated as knowledge, then the human-software system will be superhuman, in the same sense that mankind with writing is superhuman compared to mankind before writing.”