Wally Feurzeig

Computer Scientist

1927 –

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Who is Wally Feurzeig?

Wally Feurzeig was an inventor of the LOGO programming language, and a well-known researcher in Artificial Intelligence.

During the early 1960s, BBN had become a major center of computer science research and innovative applications. Wally Feurzeig joined the firm in 1962 to work with its newly available facilities in the Artificial Intelligence Department, one of the earliest AI organizations. His colleagues were actively engaged in some of the pioneering AI work in computer pattern recognition, natural language understanding, theorem proving, LISP language development and robot problem solving.

Much of this work was done in collaboration with distinguished researchers at MIT such as Marvin Minsky and John McCarthy, who were regular BBN consultants during the early 1960s. Other groups at BBN were doing original work in cognitive science, instructional research and man-computer communication. Some of the first work on knowledge representation, question answering, interactive graphics and computer-aided instruction was actively underway. J. C. R. Licklider was the spiritual as well as the scientific leader of much of this work, championing the cause of on-line interaction during an era when almost all computation was being done via batch processing.

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Born
Jun 10, 1927
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Employment
  • BBN Technologies

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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