Ken Forbus

Ken Forbus

Ken Forbus is a professor of Computer Science at Northwestern University. He is notable for his work in Qualitative Process Theory, Automated Sketch Understanding and on Automated Analogical Reasoning. He developed the Structure Mapping Engine based on the structure-mapping theory of Dedre Gentner.

Forbus is a frequent collaborator with researchers at Cycorp.


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