John F. Sowa
| John F. Sowa | |
|---|---|
| Born |
John Florian Sowa January 1, 1940 |
| Residence | Croton-on-Hudson, New York |
| Education | Massachusetts Institute of Technology BS 1962, Harvard University MA 1966, Vrije Universiteit Brussel PhD 1999 |
| Occupation | Computer Scientist |
| Known for | Conceptual graphs |
| Spouse(s) | Cora Angier Sowa |
| Website | www |
John Florian Sowa (born 1940) is an American computer scientist, an expert in artificial intelligence and computer design, and the inventor of conceptual graphs.
Sowa received a BS in mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962, an MA in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1966, and a PhD in computer science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 1999 on a dissertation titled "Knowledge Representation: Logical, Philosophical, and Computational Foundations".
Sowa spent most of his professional career at IBM, which started in 1962 at IBM's applied mathematics group. Over the decades he has researched and developed emerging fields of computer science from compiler, programming languages, and system architecture to artificial intelligence and knowledge representation. In the 1990s Sowa was associated with IBM Educational Center in New York. Over the years he taught courses at the IBM Systems Research Institute, Binghamton University, Stanford University, Linguistic Society of America and Université du Québec à Montréal. He is a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
After early retirement at IBM Sowa in 2001 cofounded VivoMind Intelligence, Inc. with Arun K. Majumdar. With this company he was developing data-mining and database technology, more specific high-level "ontologies" for artificial intelligence and automated natural language understanding. Currently Sowa is working with Kyndi Inc., also founded by Majumdar.
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