Editing Edward Feigenbaum (section)

{{Short description|American computer scientist}}
{{Infobox scientist
| image = 27. Dr. Edward A. Feigenbaum 1994-1997.jpg
| name = Ed Feigenbaum
| birth_name = Edward Albert Feigenbaum
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1936|1|20|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Weehawken, New Jersey]]
| death_date = 
| death_place = 
| field = [[Computer science]] <br> [[Artificial intelligence]]
| work_institution = [[Stanford University]] <br> [[United States Air Force]]
| education = [[Carnegie Mellon University]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]], [[Master of Science|MS]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]])
| doctoral_advisor = [[Herbert A. Simon]]
| website = {{URL|http://ksl-web.stanford.edu/people/eaf}}
| doctoral_students = {{Plainlist|[[Ramanathan V. Guha]]
* [[Alon Halevy]]<ref name=mathgene/>
* [[Peter Karp (scientist)|Peter Karp]]<ref name=karphd>{{cite thesis|url=http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA219003|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170609122417/http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA219003|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 9, 2017|degree=PhD|publisher=Stanford University|website=dtic.mil|year=1988|oclc=20463112|first=Peter Dornin|last=Karp|doi=10.1609/aimag.v11i4.859|title=Hypothesis Formation and Qualitative Reasoning in Molecular Biology}}</ref>
* [[Niklaus Wirth]]<ref name=mathgene/>}}
| known_for = [[Expert system]]s <br> [[EPAM]] <br> [[Dendral|DENDRAL project]] <br> [[Feigenbaum test]]
| prizes = [[Turing Award]] (1994)<br> [[Computer Pioneer Award]]<br>[[AAAI Fellow]] (1990)<ref>''[https://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows-list.php Elected AAAI Fellows]''</ref><br>[[ACM Fellow]] (2007)
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}}

'''Edward Albert Feigenbaum''' (born January 20, 1936) is a [[computer scientist]] working in the field of [[artificial intelligence]], and joint winner of the 1994 [[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]] [[Turing Award]].<ref>David Alan Grier. (Oct.-Dec. 2013). "Edward Feigenbaum [interview]." ''[[Annals of the History of Computing]]''. p.&nbsp;74-81.</ref> He is often called the "father of [[expert system]]s".<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/bios/Edward,Feigenbaum/ |title=Edward Feigenbaum 2012 Fellow |access-date=2012-01-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509235811/http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/hall/bios/Edward,Feigenbaum/ |archive-date=2013-05-09 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Feigenbaum|first1=Edward A. |last2=McCorduck|first2=Pamela|year=1983|title=The Fifth Generation: Artificial Intelligence and Japan's Computer Challenge to the World|url=https://archive.org/details/fifthgeneration00feig|url-access=registration|publisher=Addison Wesley Publishing Company|isbn=9780201115192 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-age-of-intelligent-machines-knowledge-processing-from-file-servers-to-knowledge-servers |title=The Age of Intelligent Machines: Knowledge Processing--From File Servers to Knowledge Servers by Edward Feigenbaum |access-date=2013-05-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610052220/http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-age-of-intelligent-machines-knowledge-processing-from-file-servers-to-knowledge-servers |archive-date=2016-06-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Feigenbaum|first=Edward A.|year=2003|title=Some challenges and grand challenges for computational intelligence|journal=[[Journal of the ACM]]|volume=50|issue=1|pages=32–40|doi=10.1145/602382.602400|s2cid=15379263}}</ref>