Name: Edward Albert Feigenbaum

Born: January 20, 1936, in Weehawken, New Jersey USA

  • Computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence.
  • Often called the “father of expert systems.”
  • Founded the Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Stanford University.

Significant publications

  • The Age of Intelligent Machines: Knowledge Processing–From File Servers to Knowledge Servers.
  • Some challenges and grand challenges for computational intelligence.

Honors and awards

  • Turing Award (1994).
  • U.S. Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Award (1997).
  • Inducted into IEEE Intelligent Systems’ AI’s Hall of Fame (2011).
  • Awarded the Fellow Award by the Computer History Museum in California (2012).