Ronald J. Brachman

Ronald J. Brachman

Ronald J. "Ron" Brachman is Vice President of Worldwide Research Operations at Yahoo! Research. Previously, he worked at DARPA as a Program Director of the Cognitive Systems area. Before that, he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill, NJ) as the Head of the Artificial Intelligence Principles Research Department (2004).

He is the godfather of Description Logic, the logic-based knowledge representation formalism underlying the Web Ontology Language OWL.

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

Notable publications

Books

* Ronald J. Brachman, Hector J. Levesque and Raymond Reiter (Eds.) (1992) "Knowledge Representation"; February; 414 pp. [ISBN 0-262-52168-7]
* Ronald J. Brachman and Hector J. Levesque (2004) "Knowledge Representation and Reasoning"; May; 381 pp. [ISBN 1-55860-932-6]

Journal articles

* Ronald J. Brachman (1983) "What IS-A is and isn't. An Analysis of Taxonomic Links in Semantic Networks"; "IEEE Computer", 16 (10); October. [http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/context/177306/0]

External links

* [http://brachman.org/ Personal home page]
* [http://research.yahoo.com/~ron_brachman Yahoo profile]
* [http://www.cc.gatech.edu/events/dr-ronald-brachman-yahoo-research-distinguished-guest-lecture External biography]


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