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Scott E. Fahlman Research
Professor Computer Science Department Pittsburgh, PA 15213 sef@cs.cmu.edu Office: Gates-Hillman 6417 Phone: (412) 268-2575 Assistant: Michelle Pagnani |
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As a researcher, I am primarily interested in Artificial
Intelligence and its applications. I have worked in many areas of AI: problem
solving, knowledge representation, image processing, natural language, document
classification, artificial neural networks, and the use of massively parallel
machines to solve AI problems. Currently, I am working on Scone, a practical system that
can represent a large body of real-world knowledge and that can efficiently
perform the kinds of search and inference that seem so effortless for us
humans. This work is based in part on the NETL system that I developed for my
Ph.D. thesis many years ago, but the new system is designed to run on a
standard workstations and servers rather than on special parallel
hardware. I believe that such
“knowledge base” systems will be important tools in the future, perhaps used
in even more ways than database systems are used today. In addition to my AI research, I have worked on tools for
incremental, exploratory development of complex software systems. I was one
of the principal designers of the Common Lisp language. My research group
developed the widely used CMU Common Lisp implementation, which set a new
standard for Lisp performance. After
that, we worked on innovative software development environments for Dylan and
Java. I am also interested in the use
of AI techniques to build better user interfaces, especially for loose
collections of “pervasive computing” devices. From 1996 to 2000 I was the head of Links:
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My CV ·
The "Knowledge Nuggets" Blog ·
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