Michael Genesereth

Michael Genesereth is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University and director of that department's Logic Group, located in the William Gates Computer Science Building.He is research director of [http://codex.stanford.edu/ CodeX] , the Stanford Center for Computers and Law with in the Stanford Law School. He is perhaps best known for his work on computational logic and applications of that work in enterprise management and electronic commerce.

Education

Genesereth received his Sc.B. in Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Harvard University.

Academic career

Genesereth is the director of the Stanford branch of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute. He is an expert in General Game Playing. He is the creator of Game description language and Knowledge Interchange Format. He is one of the founders of [http://www.teknowledge.com/ Teknowledge] , an AI-commercialization company. He is a co-founder of [http://www.commerce.net/ CommerceNet] , the premier organization for electronic commerce on the Internet. He is a founder of Mergent Systems, an early vendor of technology for integrated catalogs on the web, later acquired by [http://www.perfect.com/ Perfect Commerce] . [ [http://logic.stanford.edu/people/genesereth/ Faculty webpage] ]

ee also

*Stanford Center for Internet and Society

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