Edward Feigenbaum

1936– · American computer scientist (born 1936)

Topics: artificial intelligence, databases, learning

• When I was younger, I was too busy for history and not cognizant of the importance of it. As I got older and began to see my own career unfolding, I began to realize the impact of the ideas of others on my ideas. I became more and more of a history buff.

  — Edward Feigenbaum

• In my view the science that we call AI, maybe better called computational intelligence, is the manifest destiny of computer science.

  — Edward Feigenbaum

• There are certain major mysteries that are magnificent open questions of the greatest import. Some of the things computer scientists study are not. If you’re studying the structure of data-bases—well, sorry to say, that’s not one of the big magnificent questions.

  — Edward Feigenbaum

• Reading from text in general is a hard problem, because it involves all of common sense knowledge. But reading from text in structured domans I don’t think is as hard. It is a critical problem that needs to be solved.

  — Edward Feigenbaum