Ken Forbus | |
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Academic background | |
Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, MS, PhD) |
Doctoral advisor | Gerald Jay Sussman |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Computer science |
Sub-discipline | Artificial intelligence |
Institutions | UIUC Northwestern University |
Doctoral students | Boi Faltings |
Kenneth Dale "Ken" Forbus is an American computer scientist working as the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Education at Northwestern University. [1]
Forbus earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science,Master of Science in computer science,and PhD in artificial intelligence from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [2]
Forbus is notable for his work in qualitative process theory,automated sketch understanding,and automated analogical reasoning. He also developed the structure mapping engine based on the structure-mapping theory of Dedre Gentner. He is a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the Cognitive Science Society. [3] [4]
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