Ronald J. Brachman

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Ronald Jay Brachman
Born1949 (age 7475)
Alma mater Harvard University
Princeton University
Scientific career
Institutions Harvard University
Yahoo! Research
AT&T Corporation
DARPA
Thesis A structural paradigm for representing knowledge  (1977)
Doctoral advisor William Aaron Woods
Website www.brachman.org
research.yahoo.com/Ron_Brachman

Ronald Jay "Ron" Brachman (born 1949) is the director of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech. [1] Previously, he was the Chief Scientist of Yahoo! and head of Yahoo! Labs (Now Yahoo! Research). Prior to that, he was the Associate Head of Yahoo! Labs and Head of Worldwide Labs and Research Operations.

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Education

Brachman earned his B.S.E.E. degree from Princeton University, and his S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University.

Career

Prior to working at Yahoo!, Brachman worked at DARPA as the Director of the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO), one of DARPA's eight offices at the time. While at IPTO, he helped develop DARPA's Cognitive Systems research efforts. Before that, he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill, New Jersey) as the Head of the Artificial Intelligence Principles Research Department (2004) and Director of the Software and Systems Research Laboratory. When AT&T split with Lucent in 1996, he became Communications Services Research Vice President and was one of the founders of AT&T Labs.

He is considered by some to be the godfather[ citation needed ] of description logic, the logic-based knowledge representation formalism underlying the Web Ontology Language OWL. He was elected a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 1990. [2]

He was a resident of Westfield, New Jersey. [3]

Publications

He is the co-author with Hector Levesque of a popular book on knowledge representation and reasoning [4] [5] and many scientific papers. [6] [7] [8]

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References

  1. "Ron Brachman Joins the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech as the New Director". Cornell Tech. 25 May 2016. Retrieved 2016-05-25.
  2. "Elected AAAI Fellows". AAAI. Retrieved 2024-01-01.
  3. The Westfield Leader, OUR 115th YEAR - ISSUE NO. 07-2005, February 17, 2005 http://www.digifind-it.com/westfield/leader/2005/2005-02-17.pdf
  4. Reiter, Ray; Brachman, Ronald J.; Levesque, Hector J. (1992). Knowledge representation. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. ISBN   978-0-262-52168-0.
  5. Levesque, Hector J.; Brachman, Ronald J. (2004). Knowledge representation and reasoning. Amsterdam: Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN   978-1-55860-932-7.
  6. Ronald J. Brachman publications indexed by Microsoft Academic
  7. Ronald J. Brachman at DBLP Bibliography Server OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  8. Ronald J. Brachman (1983) "What IS-A is and isn't. An Analysis of Taxonomic Links in Semantic Networks"; IEEE Computer, 16 (10); October.