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Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

  • Allen NewellAllen Newell was born on the 19th of March 1927, and by the time he died on the 19th of July 1992, he had helped build the intellectual foundations of an…
  • Marvin MinskyMarvin Minsky once described intelligence as the possible product of the interaction of non-intelligent parts. That idea alone reshaped how scientists and…
  • Arthur Samuel (computer scientist)Arthur Lee Samuel coined the term "machine learning" in 1959, and the computers of his era had almost no memory to spare.
  • Yoshua BengioYoshua Bengio was born on the 5th of March 1964 in France. His family had emigrated to France from Morocco as Jewish refugees.
  • Herbert A. SimonHerbert Alexander Simon was born on the 15th of June 1916 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the son of an electrical engineer who had crossed the Atlantic from…
  • Yann LeCunYann LeCun was born on the 8th of July 1960 in Soisy-sous-Montmorency, a suburb of Paris, and his surname carries the fingerprints of a culture older than…
  • Geoffrey HintonGeoffrey Hinton spent decades trying to convince the scientific world that the brain's approach to learning was the right model for machines.
  • Oliver SelfridgeOliver Selfridge was born on the 10th of May 1926 into a family that already knew something about building things people would remember.
  • John McCarthy (computer scientist)John McCarthy coined the term "artificial intelligence" in the summer of 1956, and spent the rest of his life trying to build exactly what that phrase…
  • Judea PearlJudea Pearl entered the world on the 4th of September 1936 in Tel Aviv. This city sat within the British Mandate for Palestine at that time.
  • Rodney BrooksRodney Allen Brooks was born on the 30th of December 1954 in Australia. He began his academic journey studying pure mathematics at Flinders University of…
  • Stuart J. RussellStuart Jonathan Russell entered the world in 1962 within the coastal city of Portsmouth, England. He attended St Paul's School in London before moving to…