- Bertram Raphael
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name = Bertram Raphael
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birth_place =New York
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fields =Artificial intelligence
workplaces =SRI International
alma_mater =MIT
doctoral_advisor =Marvin Minsky
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footnotes =Bertram Raphael (born 1936 in
New York ) is an American computer scientist known for his contributions toartificial intelligence . He received hisbachelor's degree in physics from theRensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1957 and hisPhD in mathematics fromMIT in 1964 .Accomplishments
* Invented the
A Star Search Algorithm
* CreatedShakey the Robot
* Co-founded the Journal of Artificial IntelligenceOther items of note
* Directed the Artificial Intelligence Center at
SRI International from 1970 to 1973
* SoldDouglas Engelbart 's ARC (Augmentation Research Center) fromSRI International toTymeshare in 1976.
* Was a student ofMarvin Minsky atMIT
* Was a Senior Fulbright Lecturer, Vienna, 1973-74.Books
"The Thinking Computer: Mind Inside Matter" (W.H. Freeman & Company, 1976)
Dissertation
SIR (Semantic Information Retrieval program) on the logical representation of knowledge for question-answering systems (MIT, 1964)
ources
* http://www.aaai.org/AITopics/bbhist.html
* http://www.ai.sri.com/people/Raphael/Related links
*
History of artificial intelligence
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