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'''Kai-Fu Lee''',<br/>
a Taiwanese computer scientist with expertise in [[Artificial Intelligence|artificial intelligence]], technology executive, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_capital venture capitalist], and writer.
He was founding president of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China Google China], serving from July 2005 through September 2009, and was also affiliated with [[Microsoft]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics SGI] and [[Apple]].
Kai-Fu Lee graduated from [[Columbia University]] in computer science in 1983, and earned a Ph.D. from [[Carnegie Mellon University]] in 1988, where he worked on [[Learning|machine learning]], [[Pattern Recognition|pattern recognition]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition speech recognition], developing the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMU_Sphinx CMU Sphinx] system.
=Bill=
During the mid and late 80s, along with [[Sanjoy Mahajan]], Kai-Fu Lee co-authored the at that time world class [[Othello]] program ''Bill'' <ref>[[Kai-Fu Lee]], [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''1986'''). ''[https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/BILL_a_table-based_knowledge-intensive_othello_program/6603887/1 BILL: a table-based, knowledge-intensive othello program]''. Technial Report CMU-CS-86-141, [[Carnegie Mellon University]]</ref>,
initially written in [[LISP|Common Lisp]] at [[Carnegie Mellon University]] in 1985, in 1986 rewritten in [[C]], and in 2005 released under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GPL]] <ref>[http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/othello/bill-1.0.tar.gz BILL: An Othello program released under the GPL] from [http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/ Sanjoy Mahajan's Home Page]</ref>.
''Bill 3.0'' applies [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference Bayesian learning] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discriminant_function_analysis discriminant functions] that [[Automated Tuning|automaticly combines]] [[Evaluation|evaluation]] features <ref>[[Kai-Fu Lee]] ('''1986'''). ''[https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/A_pattern_classification_approach_to_evaluation_function_learning/6591158 A pattern classification approach to evaluation function learning]''. Technial Report CMU-CS-86-173, [[Carnegie Mellon University]]</ref> <ref>[http://satirist.org/learn-game/systems/othello/bill.html Bill] from [http://satirist.org/learn-game/systems/othello/ The strong learning Othello Programs], [http://satirist.org/learn-game/ Machine Learning in Games] by [[Jay Scott]]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/l/Lee:Kai=Fu dblp: Kai-Fu Lee]</ref>
==1986 ...==
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]], [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''1986'''). ''[https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/BILL_a_table-based_knowledge-intensive_othello_program/6603887/1 BILL: a table-based, knowledge-intensive othello program]''. Technial Report CMU-CS-86-141, [[Carnegie Mellon University]], [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f7ab/15736ecc79452aa4546cf8d7f5aa94d6afa0.pdf pdf]
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]] ('''1986'''). ''[https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/A_pattern_classification_approach_to_evaluation_function_learning/6591158 A pattern classification approach to evaluation function learning]''. Technial Report CMU-CS-86-173, [[Carnegie Mellon University]]
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]], [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''1988'''). ''[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0004370288900768 A Pattern Classification Approach to Evaluation Function Learning]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_%28journal%29 Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 36, No. 1
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]] ('''1988'''). ''[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=914540 Large-vocabulary speaker-independent continuous speech recognition: The SPHINX system]''. Ph.D. thesis, [[Carnegie Mellon University]], advisor [[Mathematician#RajReddy|Raj Reddy]]
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]] ('''1989'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-1-4615-3650-5 Automatic Speech Recognition: The Development of the SPHINX System]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Kluwer Academic Publishers]
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]] ('''1989'''). ''[https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Hidden-Markov-models%3A-past%2C-present%2C-and-future-Lee/24c4cafdad31008b7c5b27980182d3eb41c95ad8 Hidden Markov models: past, present, and future]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/interspeech/eurospeech1989.html EUROSPEECH 1989] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Markov_model Hidden Markov model from Wikipedia]</ref>
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]], [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''1989'''). ''[https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Corrective-and-reinforcement-learning-for-speech-Lee-Mahajan/ea82f514e0e00586f00402a4df2cd0885b4e13c5 Corrective and Reinforcement Learning for Speaker-independent continuous Speech Recognition]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/interspeech/eurospeech1989.html EUROSPEECH 1989]
==1990 ...==
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]], [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''1990'''). ''[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/000437029090068B The Development of a World Class Othello Program]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_%28journal%29 Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 43, No. 1
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]], [https://dblp.org/pers/hd/h/Hon:Hsiao=Wuen Hsiao-Wuen Hon], [[Mathematician#RajReddy|Raj Reddy]] ('''1990'''). ''[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/45616 An overview of the SPHINX speech recognition system]''. [[IEEE#TASSP|IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing]], Vol. 38, No. 1, [https://www.ri.cmu.edu/pub_files/pub2/lee_k_f_1990_1/lee_k_f_1990_1.pdf pdf]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Waibel Alex Waibel], [[Kai-Fu Lee]] (eds.) ('''1990'''). ''[https://www.elsevier.com/books/readings-in-speech-recognition/waibel/978-0-08-051584-7 Readings in Speech Recognition]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevier Elsevier]
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]] ('''1993'''). ''The conversational computer: an Apple perspective''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/interspeech/eurospeech1993.html EUROSPEECH 1993]
==2000 ...==
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]] ('''2008'''). ''[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1390335&dl=ACM&coll=DL Delighting Chinese users: the Google China experience]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/sigir/sigir2008.html SIGIR 2008]
<ref>[https://youtu.be/9M257AOqqrw Delighting Chinese Users: The Google China Experience], October 17, 2008 at [[Columbia University]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_International_and_Public_Affairs,_Columbia_University School of International and Public Affairs] (SIPA), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
{{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M257AOqqrw|alignment=left|valignment=top}}</ref>
==2010 ...==
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]] ('''2018'''). ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_Superpowers AI Superpowers]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houghton_Mifflin_Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt]
<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNAFI3Lh97Y 'AI Superpowers': A Conversation With Kai-Fu Lee] by [https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewmclaughlin Andrew McLaughlin], October 2, 2018, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
{{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNAFI3Lh97Y|alignment=left|valignment=top}}</ref>
=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai-Fu_Lee Kai-Fu Lee from Wikipedia]
* [https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=40485 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Kai-Fu Lee]
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaifulee Kai Fu Lee | LinkedIn]
* [https://twitter.com/kaifulee Kai-Fu Lee (@kaifulee) | Twitter]
* [https://www.ted.com/talks/kai_fu_lee_how_ai_can_save_our_humanity Kai-Fu Lee: How AI can save our humanity] | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TED_(conference) TED Talk], April 2018, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajGgd9Ld-Wc|alignment=left|valignment=top}}
=References=
<references />
'''[[People|Up one level]]'''
[[Category:Entrepreneur|Lee]]
[[Category:Mathematician|Lee]]
[[Category:Researcher|Lee]]
[[Category:Othello Programmer|Lee]]
[[Category:Videos|Lee]]
[[FILE:Capture medium.jpg|border|right|thumb| Kai-Fu Lee <ref>Kai-Fu Lee, July 09, 2018, by SheilaShang, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons]</ref> ]]
'''Kai-Fu Lee''',<br/>
a Taiwanese computer scientist with expertise in [[Artificial Intelligence|artificial intelligence]], technology executive, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_capital venture capitalist], and writer.
He was founding president of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_China Google China], serving from July 2005 through September 2009, and was also affiliated with [[Microsoft]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics SGI] and [[Apple]].
Kai-Fu Lee graduated from [[Columbia University]] in computer science in 1983, and earned a Ph.D. from [[Carnegie Mellon University]] in 1988, where he worked on [[Learning|machine learning]], [[Pattern Recognition|pattern recognition]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition speech recognition], developing the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMU_Sphinx CMU Sphinx] system.
=Bill=
During the mid and late 80s, along with [[Sanjoy Mahajan]], Kai-Fu Lee co-authored the at that time world class [[Othello]] program ''Bill'' <ref>[[Kai-Fu Lee]], [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''1986'''). ''[https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/BILL_a_table-based_knowledge-intensive_othello_program/6603887/1 BILL: a table-based, knowledge-intensive othello program]''. Technial Report CMU-CS-86-141, [[Carnegie Mellon University]]</ref>,
initially written in [[LISP|Common Lisp]] at [[Carnegie Mellon University]] in 1985, in 1986 rewritten in [[C]], and in 2005 released under the [[Free Software Foundation#GPL|GPL]] <ref>[http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/othello/bill-1.0.tar.gz BILL: An Othello program released under the GPL] from [http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/ Sanjoy Mahajan's Home Page]</ref>.
''Bill 3.0'' applies [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference Bayesian learning] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discriminant_function_analysis discriminant functions] that [[Automated Tuning|automaticly combines]] [[Evaluation|evaluation]] features <ref>[[Kai-Fu Lee]] ('''1986'''). ''[https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/A_pattern_classification_approach_to_evaluation_function_learning/6591158 A pattern classification approach to evaluation function learning]''. Technial Report CMU-CS-86-173, [[Carnegie Mellon University]]</ref> <ref>[http://satirist.org/learn-game/systems/othello/bill.html Bill] from [http://satirist.org/learn-game/systems/othello/ The strong learning Othello Programs], [http://satirist.org/learn-game/ Machine Learning in Games] by [[Jay Scott]]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/l/Lee:Kai=Fu dblp: Kai-Fu Lee]</ref>
==1986 ...==
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]], [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''1986'''). ''[https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/BILL_a_table-based_knowledge-intensive_othello_program/6603887/1 BILL: a table-based, knowledge-intensive othello program]''. Technial Report CMU-CS-86-141, [[Carnegie Mellon University]], [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f7ab/15736ecc79452aa4546cf8d7f5aa94d6afa0.pdf pdf]
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]] ('''1986'''). ''[https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/A_pattern_classification_approach_to_evaluation_function_learning/6591158 A pattern classification approach to evaluation function learning]''. Technial Report CMU-CS-86-173, [[Carnegie Mellon University]]
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]], [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''1988'''). ''[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0004370288900768 A Pattern Classification Approach to Evaluation Function Learning]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_%28journal%29 Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 36, No. 1
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]] ('''1988'''). ''[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=914540 Large-vocabulary speaker-independent continuous speech recognition: The SPHINX system]''. Ph.D. thesis, [[Carnegie Mellon University]], advisor [[Mathematician#RajReddy|Raj Reddy]]
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]] ('''1989'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-1-4615-3650-5 Automatic Speech Recognition: The Development of the SPHINX System]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Kluwer Academic Publishers]
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]] ('''1989'''). ''[https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Hidden-Markov-models%3A-past%2C-present%2C-and-future-Lee/24c4cafdad31008b7c5b27980182d3eb41c95ad8 Hidden Markov models: past, present, and future]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/interspeech/eurospeech1989.html EUROSPEECH 1989] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_Markov_model Hidden Markov model from Wikipedia]</ref>
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]], [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''1989'''). ''[https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Corrective-and-reinforcement-learning-for-speech-Lee-Mahajan/ea82f514e0e00586f00402a4df2cd0885b4e13c5 Corrective and Reinforcement Learning for Speaker-independent continuous Speech Recognition]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/interspeech/eurospeech1989.html EUROSPEECH 1989]
==1990 ...==
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]], [[Sanjoy Mahajan]] ('''1990'''). ''[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/000437029090068B The Development of a World Class Othello Program]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_%28journal%29 Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 43, No. 1
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]], [https://dblp.org/pers/hd/h/Hon:Hsiao=Wuen Hsiao-Wuen Hon], [[Mathematician#RajReddy|Raj Reddy]] ('''1990'''). ''[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/45616 An overview of the SPHINX speech recognition system]''. [[IEEE#TASSP|IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing]], Vol. 38, No. 1, [https://www.ri.cmu.edu/pub_files/pub2/lee_k_f_1990_1/lee_k_f_1990_1.pdf pdf]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Waibel Alex Waibel], [[Kai-Fu Lee]] (eds.) ('''1990'''). ''[https://www.elsevier.com/books/readings-in-speech-recognition/waibel/978-0-08-051584-7 Readings in Speech Recognition]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevier Elsevier]
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]] ('''1993'''). ''The conversational computer: an Apple perspective''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/interspeech/eurospeech1993.html EUROSPEECH 1993]
==2000 ...==
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]] ('''2008'''). ''[https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1390335&dl=ACM&coll=DL Delighting Chinese users: the Google China experience]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/sigir/sigir2008.html SIGIR 2008]
<ref>[https://youtu.be/9M257AOqqrw Delighting Chinese Users: The Google China Experience], October 17, 2008 at [[Columbia University]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_International_and_Public_Affairs,_Columbia_University School of International and Public Affairs] (SIPA), [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
{{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M257AOqqrw|alignment=left|valignment=top}}</ref>
==2010 ...==
* [[Kai-Fu Lee]] ('''2018'''). ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_Superpowers AI Superpowers]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houghton_Mifflin_Harcourt Houghton Mifflin Harcourt]
<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNAFI3Lh97Y 'AI Superpowers': A Conversation With Kai-Fu Lee] by [https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewmclaughlin Andrew McLaughlin], October 2, 2018, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
{{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNAFI3Lh97Y|alignment=left|valignment=top}}</ref>
=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kai-Fu_Lee Kai-Fu Lee from Wikipedia]
* [https://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=40485 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Kai-Fu Lee]
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaifulee Kai Fu Lee | LinkedIn]
* [https://twitter.com/kaifulee Kai-Fu Lee (@kaifulee) | Twitter]
* [https://www.ted.com/talks/kai_fu_lee_how_ai_can_save_our_humanity Kai-Fu Lee: How AI can save our humanity] | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TED_(conference) TED Talk], April 2018, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video
: {{#evu:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajGgd9Ld-Wc|alignment=left|valignment=top}}
=References=
<references />
'''[[People|Up one level]]'''
[[Category:Entrepreneur|Lee]]
[[Category:Mathematician|Lee]]
[[Category:Researcher|Lee]]
[[Category:Othello Programmer|Lee]]
[[Category:Videos|Lee]]
