Scott E. Fahlman

Scott Fahlman
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Born	Scott Elliott Fahlman (1948-03-21) March 21, 1948 (age 69) Medina, Ohio, U.S.
Alma mater	MIT
Scientific career
Fields	Natural language processing, Computer Science
Institutions	CMU
Doctoral advisor	Gerald Jay Sussman Patrick Winston
Doctoral students	David S. Touretzky Michael Witbrock

Scott Elliott Fahlman (born March 21, 1948) is a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. He is notable for early work on automated planning in a blocks world, on semantic networks, on neural networks (and, in particular, the cascade correlation algorithm), on the Dylan programming language, and on Common Lisp (in particular CMU Common Lisp and he was one of the founders of Lucid Inc.). During the period when it was standardized, he was recognized as "the leader of Common Lisp." Recently, Fahlman has been engaged in constructing a knowledge base, "Scone", based in part on his thesis work on the NETL Semantic Network.

Fahlman was born in Medina, Ohio, the son of Lorna May (Dean) and John Emil Fahlman. He received his bachelor's degree and master's degree in 1973 from MIT, and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1977. His thesis advisors were Gerald Sussman and Patrick Winston. He is a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.