Richard Fikes
Richard Fikes | |
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| Born | October 4, 1942 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Known for | STRIPS, Shakey the robot, KIF |
| Awards | AAAI Fellow |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Artificial intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning |
| Thesis | A Heuristic Program for Solving Problems Stated as Nondeterministic Procedures (1968) |
| Doctoral advisor | Allen Newell |
| Doctoral students | Alon Halevy, Satish Kumar Thittamaranahalli, Patrick Doyle, Karl Pfleger, Todd Neller |
| Website | profiles |
Richard Earl Fikes (born October 4, 1942) is a computer scientist and Professor (Research) Emeritus in the Computer Science department of Stanford University. He led Stanford's Knowledge Systems Laboratory from 1991 to 2006, and has held appointments at Berkeley, Carnegie-Mellon, Price Waterhouse Technology Centre, Xerox PARC, and SRI International.