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Douglas Lenat

Also Known As Douglas Bruce Lenat · Doug Lenat · Doug B. Lenat · Doug B Lenat · D. B. Lenat · D B Lenat
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Douglas Lenat was an American artificial intelligence researcher who founded and led Cycorp, the company built around Cyc, a decades long project to encode common sense human knowledge into a machine usable form, ultimately built from an estimated 2,000 person years of effort into roughly 24 million rules and assertions. Earlier in his career he created AM, a 1976 program that proposed new mathematical concepts rather than simply proving given theorems, and its successor Eurisko, which treated its own heuristic rules as objects it could inspect and improve, letting the program discover new heuristics on its own.

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Birth Year
1950 1
Birth Date
1950-09-13 1
Death Year
2023 1
Death Date
2023-08-31 1
Nationality
American 1
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1. Wikipedia: Douglas Lenat
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    Douglas Bruce Lenat (September 13, 1950, August 31, 2023) was an American computer scientist and researcher in artificial intelligence who was the founder and CEO of Cycorp, Inc. in Austin, Texas.
  • lead sentence, death date clause
    Douglas Bruce Lenat (September 13, 1950, August 31, 2023) was an American computer scientist and researcher in artificial intelligence who was the founder and CEO of Cycorp, Inc. in Austin, Texas.
  • lead sentence, nationality clause
    Douglas Bruce Lenat (September 13, 1950, August 31, 2023) was an American computer scientist and researcher in artificial intelligence who was the founder and CEO of Cycorp, Inc. in Austin, Texas.
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Douglas Lenat (Wikidata)
  • Wikidata alias: Douglas Bruce Lenat
    Douglas Bruce Lenat
  • Wikidata P166: AAAI Fellow
    Wikidata P166 (award received): AAAI Fellow.
  • Wikidata P166: Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
  • Wikidata P166: IJCAI Computers and Thought Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): IJCAI Computers and Thought Award.
  • Wikidata P166: Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society.
  • Wikidata alias: Doug Lenat
    Doug Lenat
  • Wikidata alias: Doug B. Lenat
    Doug B. Lenat
  • Wikidata alias: Doug B Lenat
    Doug B Lenat
  • Wikidata alias: D. B. Lenat
    D. B. Lenat
  • Wikidata alias: D B Lenat
    D B Lenat
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