Fernando Pereira is a computer scientist who is Vice President and Engineering Fellow at Google, where he leads research and development in natural-language understanding and machine learning. He received a PhD in artificial intelligence from the University of Edinburgh in 1982 and held research and management positions at SRI International, then headed the Machine Learning and Information Retrieval department at AT&T Labs and chaired the Computer and Information Science department of the University of Pennsylvania. His more than 120 publications cover computational linguistics, machine learning, bioinformatics, speech recognition and logic programming. He was elected AAAI Fellow in 1991 for contributions to computational linguistics and logic programming, ACM Fellow in 2010 for machine-learning models of natural language and biological sequences, and served as president of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 1993.
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Contribution Kind Highest Honour Highest Honour Notable WorkEarly development of Prolog at the University of Edinburgh 1 Sources
1. Definite clause grammar (Wikipedia)
History, PrologQuote, History, Prolog
Fernando Pereira and David Warren at the University of Edinburgh were also involved in the early development of Prolog.
2. Fernando Pereira (Computer History Museum)
Profile text, ACM Fellow
ACM Fellow in 2010 for contributions to machine-learning models of natural language and biological sequences
Profile text, AAAI Fellow
He was elected AAAI Fellow in 1991 for contributions to computational linguistics and logic programming
In Group: Natural Language Processing, Profile text
leads research and development in natural-language understanding and machine learning
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