Edward Albert Feigenbaum

Known as the "father of expert systems," Feigenbaum is a computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence.

Feigenbaum completed his undergraduate degree, and a Ph.D., at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University). In his PhD thesis, carried out under the supervision of Herbert Simon, he developed EPAM, one of the first computer models of how people learn.

He received the ACM Turing Award, the most prestigious award in computer science, jointly with Raj Reddy in 1994 "For pioneering the design and construction of large scale artificial intelligence systems, demonstrating the practical importance and potential commercial impact of artificial intelligence technology." A former chief scientist of the Air Force, Feigenbaum received the U.S. Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Award in 1997. In 2007 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

He founded the Knowledge Systems Laboratory at Stanford University and has served as Professor Emeritus of Computer Science there. Feigenbaum has also co-founded several start-ups, such as IntelliCorp and Teknowledge.