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Nils John Nilsson

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American estimator scientist

Nils John Nilsson (February 6, 1933 – April 23, 2019) was an American estimator scientist. He was one of the founding researchers in the subject area of bogus intelligence.^[2] He was the first Kumagai Professor of Engineering in computer science at Stanford Academy from 1991 until his retirement. He is particularly known for his contributions to search, planning, knowledge representation, and robotics.^[ii]

Early life and instruction

Nilsson was born in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1933.^[2] He received his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1958, and spent much of his career at SRI International, a individual research lab spun off from Stanford.^{[2] [iii]}

Nilsson served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force from 1958 to 1961; he was stationed at the Rome Air Development Center in Rome, New York.^{[two] [three]}

Career

SRI International

Starting in 1966, Nilsson, along with Charles A. Rosen and Bertram Raphael, led a enquiry team in the construction of Shakey, a robot that synthetic a model of its environs from sensor data, reasoned about that environment to get in at a plan of action, so carried that programme out past sending commands to its motors.^{[ii] [3]} This paradigm has been enormously influential in AI.^{[2] [3]} Textbooks such as (Charniak & McDermott 1985), (Ginsberg 1993) and the first edition of (Russell & Norvig 1992) show this influence in almost every chapter.^{[2] [3]} Although the basic thought of using logical reasoning to decide on actions is due to John McCarthy (McCarthy) harv error: no target: CITEREFMcCarthy (help), Nilsson'due south grouping was the first to embody it in a consummate amanuensis, forth the way inventing the A* search algorithm (Hart, Nilsson & Raphael 1968) harv mistake: no target: CITEREFHartNilssonRaphael1968 (assist) and founding the field of automated temporal planning.^{[2] [3]} In the latter pursuit, they invented the STRIPS planner (Fikes & Nilsson 1971), whose action representation is still the footing of many of today's planning algorithms. The subfield of automated temporal planning called classical planning is based on about of the assumptions built into STRIPS.^{[two] [3]}

Stanford University

In 1985, Nilsson became a faculty member at Stanford University, in the Computer Science Department.^[3] He was chair of the department from 1985 to 1990.^[3] He was the Kumagai Professor of Engineering science from the foundation of the Chair in around 1991^[4] until his retirement, and remained Kumagai Professor Emeritus until his death.^[3]

He was the fourth President of the AAAI (1982–83) and a Founding Boyfriend of that organization.^[iii] Nilsson wrote or coauthored several books on AI, including two that have been particularly widely read (Nilsson 1980 harvnb mistake: no target: CITEREFNilsson1980 (help), Genesereth & Nilsson 1987 harvnb fault: no target: CITEREFGeneserethNilsson1987 (help)).^{[2] [three]}

Awards and memberships

In 2011, Nilsson was inducted into IEEE Intelligent Systems' AI's Hall of Fame for the "significant contributions to the field of AI and intelligent systems".^{[3] [5] [vi]}

Personal life

On July xix, 1958, Nilsson married Karen Braucht, with whom he had ii children.^{[2] [iii]} Braucht died in 1991.^{[ii] [3]} In 1992 he married Grace Abbott, who had 4 children from a previous marriage.^{[2] [iii]}

Nilsson died on April 23, 2019, at his home in Medford, Oregon, at the historic period of 86.^{[ii] [3]}

Selected publications

• Logical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (1976), Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 978-1-493-30598-eight. (with Michael Genesereth)
• Principles of Bogus Intelligence (1982), Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-three-540-11340-nine.
• The Mathematical Foundations of Learning Machines (1990), Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 978-1-558-60123-9.
• Artificial Intelligence: A New Synthesis (1998), Morgan Kaufmann. ISBN 978-1-558-60467-4.
• The Quest for Artificial Intelligence (2009), Cambridge Academy Press. ISBN 978-0-521-11639-8.
• Understanding Behavior (2014), MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-52643-ii.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Nils J. Nilsson". Mathematics Genealogy Project . Retrieved April 29, 2019.
2. ^ ^{a b c d due east f g h i j k 50 1000 n o} Markoff, John (April 25, 2019). "Nils Nilsson, 86, dies; scientist helped robots notice their way". The New York Times . Retrieved April 28, 2019.
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f thousand h i j thou l g northward o p q} Myers, Andrew (Apr 24, 2019). "Nils Nilsson, pioneer in robotics and bogus intelligence, dies at 86". Stanford.edu. Archived from the original on April 26, 2019. Retrieved Apr 28, 2019.
4. ^ "Thoughts on Becoming the Outset Kumagai Professor of Technology" (PDF). Stanford University. xviii March 1991. Retrieved 30 Apr 2019.
5. ^ "AI'southward Hall of Fame". IEEE Intelligent Systems. 26 (4): five–15. 2011. doi:ten.1109/MIS.2011.64.
6. ^ "IEEE Computer Club Magazine Honors Bogus Intelligence Leaders". DigitalJournal.com. August 24, 2011. Retrieved September 18, 2011. Printing release source: PRWeb (Vocus).

Further reading

• Charniak, Eugene; McDermott, Drew (1985), Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley

• Fikes, Richard; Nilsson, Nils (1971), "STRIPS: A new approach to the application of theorem proving to problem solving", Artificial Intelligence, two (three–4): 189–208, CiteSeerX10.i.1.78.8292, doi:10.1016/0004-3702(71)90010-5
• Ginsberg, Matthew (1993), Essentials of Artificial Intelligence, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc.

• Hart, P. E.; Nilsson, N. J.; Raphael, B. (1968), "A Formal Basis for the Heuristic Conclusion of Minimum Toll Paths" (PDF), IEEE Transactions on Systems Science and Cybernetics SSC4, 4 (two): 100–107, doi:10.1109/TSSC.1968.300136

• McCarthy, John (1968) [1960], M. Minsky (ed.), "Programs with common sense", Proceedings of the Teddington Conference on the Mechanization of Thought Processes, London: Her Majesty's Stationery Role, pp. 403–418
• Russell, Stuart; Norvig, Peter (1992), Artificial Intelligence: A Modernistic Approach (1st ed.), Prentice Hall

External links

• Nilsson's home page
• Nils John Nilsson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Nils J. Nilsson at the AI Genealogy Project.
• Oral history interview with Nils J. Nilsson, Charles Babbage Institute, Academy of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Nilsson gives an overview of DARPA-sponsored AI enquiry at SRI, including his own work in robotics (especially during the menses 1966-1971), research on the Computer Based Consultant, and related research on natural linguistic communication and speech understanding. He describes the significance and relationship of robotics to the larger field of AI, particularly the intellectual problems it addressed and the enabling technologies it helped develop.

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