Scope and Contents This Carnegie Mellon University oral history features Edward Feigenbaum, a computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence and joint winner of the 1994 ACM Turing Award. He is often called the "father of expert systems." Feigenbaum discusses his early life, influential experiences that led to an interest in math and science, and the path that brought him to study at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) at the age of 16. Regarding Pittsburgh, Feigenbaum discusses the pollution,...

Scope and Contents This Carnegie Mellon University oral history features Clark Glymour, who was the Alumni University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University. He was also a senior research scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. Glymour discusses his early life and education, campaigning for Eugene McCarthy, the Vietnam War, and teaching at Princeton and University of Illinois. Glymour describes the origins and progression of CMU's philosophy...

Scope and Contents This Carnegie Mellon University oral history features James Morris, who is a former dean of CMU’s School of Computer Science, who directed the Information Technology Center at CMU (1983-88). Morris graduated from Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon University, in 1963 before receiving a Ph.D. at MIT. Morris discusses the innovative atmosphere he experienced in San Francisco and at Xerox PARC. He details his arrival at CMU, and the founding of Carnegie Mellon's...

Scope and Contents This Carnegie Mellon University oral history features Manuela Veloso, who is the Head of AI Research at J.P. Morgan and Herbert A. Simon University Professor Emeritus in the School of Computer Science at CMU. Veloso is co-founder and a former president of the RoboCup Federation and is known for innovations in artificial intelligence and robotics. Veloso received a Ph.D. in computer science from CMU in 1992. Veloso discusses early life in Lisbon and the strong role that education played in...

Scope and Contents This Carnegie Mellon University oral history features Manuela Veloso, who is the Head of AI Research at J.P. Morgan and Herbert A. Simon University Professor Emeritus in the School of Computer Science at CMU. Veloso is co-founder and a former president of the RoboCup Federation and is known for innovations in artificial intelligence and robotics. Veloso received a Ph.D. in computer science from CMU in 1992. Veloso discusses many of her projects in artificial intelligence and robotics...

Scope and Contents This Carnegie Mellon University oral history features Pamela McCorduck, who is the author of Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry Into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence, one of the earliest histories of artificial intelligence. McCorduck spent much of the 1970s in Pittsburgh, and along with her husband Joseph Traub, donated the Traub-McCorduck Collection of computing machines, letters, and books to the CMU Libraries. McCorduck discusses researching artificial...

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This Carnegie Mellon University oral history features Raj Reddy, who is a computer scientist known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence. Reddy is a former dean of CMU’s School of Computer Science (1991-1998), co-founder of the Robotics Institute (1979), and a Turing Award winner (1994). Reddy discusses his early life and education, attending Loyola College in Madras and the University of New South Wales, working for IBM, and receiving his PhD from Stanford.

Scope and Contents This Carnegie Mellon University oral history features Raj Reddy, who is a computer scientist known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence. Reddy is a former dean of CMU’s School of Computer Science (1991-1998), co-founder of the Robotics Institute (1979), and a Turing Award winner (1994). Reddy discusses his graduate studies at Stanford and the early days of computer science and artificial intelligence. Reddy also discusses the video game Space War, early computers, the Stanford...