Robert Wilensky

Robert Wilensky
Born March 26, 1951
Brooklyn
Died March 15, 2013 (2013-03-16) (aged 61)
Oakland, California
Education Ph.D in Computer Science
Alma mater Yale University
Years active 29 years
Employer University of California, Berkeley
Known for Artificial intelligence
Natural Language Processing

Robert Wilensky (26 March 1951 – 15 March 2013) was an American computer scientist and emeritus professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information, with his main focus of research in artificial intelligence.[1]

Academic career

In 1971, Wilensky received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Yale University, and in 1978, a Ph.D. in computer science from the same institution. After finishing his thesis, "Understanding Goal-Based Stories",[2] Wilensky joined the faculty from the EECS Department of UC Berkeley.[3] In 1986, he worked as the doctoral advisor of Peter Norvig, who then later published the standard textbook of the field: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach.

From 1993 to 1997, Wilensky was the Berkeley Computer Science Division Chair.[4] During this time, he also served as director of the Berkeley Cognitive Science Program, director of the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Project, and board member of the International Computer Science Institute.[5]

In 1997, he became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for research contributions to the areas of natural language processing and digital libraries as well as outstanding leadership in Computer Science." Furthermore, he also was an honorary member of the Golden Key International Honour Society and a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.[5]

He retired from faculty in 2007 and died on Friday, March 15, 2013 of a bacterial infection at the Alta Bates Summit Medical Center.[5]

Research

Throughout his career, Wilensky authored and co-authored over 60 scholarly articles and technical reports on AI, natural language processing, and information dissemination. In addition to his numerous technical publications, Wilensky also published two books on the programming language LISP, LISPcraft and Common LISPcraft, and had almost completed another book manuscript when he suffered a cardiac arrest and stopped writing.

Among his publications are:

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Robert Wilensky | EECS at UC Berkeley". www2.eecs.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2016-09-02.
  2. 1 2 Wilensky, Robert (1978-01-01). Understanding Goal-based Stories. (Thesis). New Haven, CT, USA: Yale University.
  3. ↑ "Robert Wilensky". senate.universityofcalifornia.edu. Retrieved 2016-09-02.
  4. ↑ Staff, Sophie Ho | Senior (2013-03-31). "UC Berkeley computer science professor emeritus Robert Wilensky dies at 61". The Daily Californian. Retrieved 2016-09-05.
  5. 1 2 3 Yang, Sarah; 25, Media relations | March; 9, 2013July; 2015. "Artificial intelligence expert Robert Wilensky dies at 61". Berkeley News. Retrieved 2016-09-02.
  6. ↑ Wilensky, Robert (1986-09-17). Common LISPcraft (2 Sub edition ed.). W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 9780393955446.
  7. ↑ Phelps, Thomas A.; Wilensky, Robert (1996-01-01). "Toward Active, Extensible, Networked Documents: Multivalent Architecture and Applications". Proceedings of the First ACM International Conference on Digital Libraries. DL '96. New York, NY, USA: ACM: 100–108. doi:10.1145/226931.226951. ISBN 0897918304.
  8. ↑ Traupman, Jonathan; Wilensky, Robert (2003-01-01). "Experiments in Improving Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation".
  9. ↑ Russell, Daniel M. (1984-07-01). "Planning and understanding: A computational approach to human reasoning". Artificial Intelligence. 23 (2): 239–242. doi:10.1016/0004-3702(84)90011-0.
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