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Edward Albert Feigenbaum, an American electrical engineer, computer scientist, professor emeritus of computer science at Stanford University, and pioneer in developing expert systems in artificial intelligence, notably the Dendral project. He received his Ph.D., 1960, in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University under supervision of Herbert Simon, describing an Elementary Perceiver and Memorizer, dubbed EPAM, one of the first computer models on how to learn, influential in formalizing the concept of a chunk, as for instance in Fernand Gobet's CHREST (Chunk Hierarchy and REtrieval STructures) architecture.

In 1960 Feigenbaum went to the University of California, Berkeley, to teach in the School of Business Administration. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1965 where he was chairman of the CS Department from 1976 to 1981. As professor emeritus at Stanford, Feigenbaum has focused interest, as a Board of Trustees member of The Computer History Museum, on preserving the history of computer science, and with the Stanford Libraries on software for building and using digital archives.

=Selected Publications=

1959

 * Edward Feigenbaum (1959). An Information Processing Theory of Verbal Learning. RAND Paper

1960 ...

 * Edward Feigenbaum (1960). Information Theories of Human Verbal Learning. Ph.D. thesis, Carnegie Mellon University, advisor Herbert Simon
 * Edward Feigenbaum (1961). The Simulation of Verbal Learning Behavior. Proceedings Western Joint Conference, Vol. 19
 * Edward Feigenbaum, Herbert Simon (1961). Performance of a Reading Task by an Elementary Perceiving and Memorizing Program. RAND Paper, pdf
 * Edward Feigenbaum, Herbert Simon (1961). Forgetting in an association memory. ACM '61
 * Edward Feigenbaum, Herbert Simon (1962). A Theory of the Serial Position Effect. British Journal of Psychology, Vol. 53, 307-32, pdf
 * Edward Feigenbaum, Julian Feldman (eds.) (1963). Computers and Thought. McGraw-Hill, New York, N.Y.
 * Edward Feigenbaum, Herbert Simon (1963). Elementary Perceiver and Memorizer: Review of Experiments. in Symposium on Simulation Models
 * Herbert Simon, Edward Feigenbaum (1964). An Information-processing Theory of Some Effects of Similarity, Familiarization, and Meaningfulness in Verbal Learning. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, Vol. 3, No. 5, pdf

1970 ...

 * Edward Feigenbaum (1977). The Art of Artificial Intelligence: Themes and Case Studies of Knowledge Engineering. IJCAI 1977
 * Bruce Buchanan, Edward Feigenbaum (1978). Dendral and Meta-Dendral: Their Applications Dimension. Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 11, No. 1-2

1980 ...

 * Robert K. Lindsay, Bruce Buchanan, Edward Feigenbaum, Joshua Lederberg (1980). Applications of Artificial Intelligence for Organic Chemistry: The DENDRAL Project. McGraw-Hill, New York, N.Y.
 * Avron Barr, Edward Feigenbaum (eds.) (1981). The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 1, HeurisTech Press
 * Avron Barr, Edward Feigenbaum (eds). (1982). The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 2, HeurisTech Press
 * Paul Cohen, Edward Feigenbaum (eds.) (1982). The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence. Vol. 3, HeurisTech Press
 * Edward Feigenbaum, Pamela McCorduck (1983). The Fifth Generation: Artificial Intelligence & Japan's Computer Challenge to the World. Addison-Wesley
 * Edward Feigenbaum, Herbert Simon (1984). EPAMlike models of recognition and learning. Cognitive Science, Vol. 8, 305-336, pdf

1990 ...

 * John McCarthy, Edward Feigenbaum (1991). In Memoriam. Arthur L. Samuel: Pioneer in Machine Learning. ICCA Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1 » Arthur Samuel
 * Edward Feigenbaum, Julian Feldman (eds.) (1995). Computers and Thought. MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0-262-56092-4
 * Edward Feigenbaum (1996). How the “What“ Becomes the “How“. Communications of the ACM, Vol. 39, No. 5, pdf, The Computer History Museum » Alan Turing
 * David D. Clark, Edward Feigenbaum, Juris Hartmanis, Robert W. Lucky, Robert Metcalfe, Raj Reddy, Mary Shaw (1998). Innovation and Obstacles: The Future of Computing. pdf

2000 ...

 * Edward Feigenbaum (2003). Some Challenges and Grand Challenges for Computational Intelligence. Journal of the ACM, Vol. 50, No. 1
 * Pamela McCorduck (2004). Machines Who Think: A Personal Inquiry into the History and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence. A. K. Peters (25th anniversary edition)
 * Edward Feigenbaum (2005). Stories of AAAI - Before the Beginning and After: A Love Letter. AI Magazine, Vol. 26, No. 4
 * Edward Feigenbaum (2007). Happy Silver Anniversary, AI! AI Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 4

=External Links=
 * Edward Feigenbaum Homepage
 * Edward Feigenbaum from Wikipedia
 * Edward A Feigenbaum - A.M. Turing Award Winner
 * Edward Feigenbaum from The Computer History Museum
 * The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Edward Feigenbaum
 * Oral History of Edward Feigenbaum Interviewed by: Nils J. Nilsson, June 20 and June 27, 2007, Mountain View, California, pdf from The Computer History Museum
 * Ed Feigenbaum's Search for A.I., YouTube Video
 * In 2006, a group of scientists, colleagues, and friends gathered at Stanford University for a 70th birthday symposium to celebrate the contributions of Edward A. Feigenbaum, an interdisciplinary computer scientist known as the father of Expert Systems and knowledge-based approaches to artificial intelligence...

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