Richard Fikes

Richard Fikes
Born (1942-10-04) October 4, 1942
NationalityAmerican
Alma materCarnegie Mellon University
Known forSTRIPS, Shakey the robot, KIF
AwardsAAAI Fellow
Scientific career
FieldsArtificial intelligence, knowledge representation and reasoning
ThesisA Heuristic Program for Solving Problems Stated as Nondeterministic Procedures (1968)
Doctoral advisorAllen Newell
Doctoral studentsAlon Halevy, Satish Kumar Thittamaranahalli, Patrick Doyle, Karl Pfleger, Todd Neller
Websiteprofiles.stanford.edu/richard-fikes

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.