Biography
Edward Albert Feigenbaum (born January 20, 1936) is an American computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence , and with Raj Reddy he won the 1994 ACM Turing Award . [ 4 ] He is often called the "father of expert systems ". [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Feigenbaum was born in Weehawken, New Jersey in 1936 to a culturally Jewish family, and moved to nearby North Bergen , where he lived until the age of 16, when he left to start college. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] His hometown did not have a secondary school of its own, and so he chose Weehawken High School for its college preparatory program. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] He was inducted into his high school's hall of fame in 1996. [ 12 ] Feigenbaum completed his undergraduate degree (1956), and a Ph.D. (1960), [ 2 ] [ 13 ] [ 14 ] at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University ). In his PhD thesis, carried out under the supervision of Herbert A. Simon , he developed EPAM , one of the first computer models of how people learn. [ 15 ] Fields: Computer science, Artificial intelligence Education: Carnegie Mellon University BS MS PhD Award Citation: Turing Award (1994) Computer Pioneer Award AAAI Fellow (1990) [ 1 ] ACM Fellow (2007)
About the Turing Award
The ACM A.M. Turing Award is an annual prize given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for contributions of lasting and major technical importance to computer science. It is generally recognized as the highest distinction in computer science and is colloquially known as the "Nobel Prize of Computing."
Quick Facts
- Award: ACM A.M. Turing Award
- Added: 2026-02-07
- Source: Wikipedia
- Prize: $1,000,000 (USD)
- Presented by: ACM
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Notable Winners
- Donald Knuth (1974)
- Tim Berners-Lee (2016)
- Geoffrey Hinton (2018)
- Yoshua Bengio (2018)
- Yann LeCun (2018)