Michael Witbrock | |
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Born | Michael John Witbrock
Christchurch, New Zealand |
Alma mater | Carnegie Mellon University |
Known for | Cycorp, Cyc, Common Lisp, ObjectStore |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science |
Michael John Witbrock is a computer scientist in the field of artificial intelligence. Witbrock is a native of New Zealand and is the former vice president of Research at Cycorp, which is carrying out the Cyc project in an effort to produce a genuine artificial intelligence.
Witbrock was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, and has a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining Cycorp, he was a principal scientist at Terra Lycos, working on integrating statistical and knowledge-based approaches to understanding Web user behavior; he has also been associated with Just Systems Pittsburgh Research Center and the Informedia Digital Library at Carnegie Mellon.
Witbrock's dissertation work was on speaker modeling; before going to Cycorp, he published in a broad range of areas, including:
His work at Cycorp has focused on improving its knowledge formation efforts, particularly dialogue processing, and on improving accessibility to the Cyc project.
Together with John Mount, Witbrock is credited [1] with genetic art, a kind of Computer-generated art.
Michael Witbrock | |
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Born | Michael John Witbrock
Christchurch, New Zealand |
Alma mater | Carnegie Mellon University |
Known for | Cycorp, Cyc, Common Lisp, ObjectStore |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science |
Michael John Witbrock is a computer scientist in the field of artificial intelligence. Witbrock is a native of New Zealand and is the former vice president of Research at Cycorp, which is carrying out the Cyc project in an effort to produce a genuine artificial intelligence.
Witbrock was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, and has a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining Cycorp, he was a principal scientist at Terra Lycos, working on integrating statistical and knowledge-based approaches to understanding Web user behavior; he has also been associated with Just Systems Pittsburgh Research Center and the Informedia Digital Library at Carnegie Mellon.
Witbrock's dissertation work was on speaker modeling; before going to Cycorp, he published in a broad range of areas, including:
His work at Cycorp has focused on improving its knowledge formation efforts, particularly dialogue processing, and on improving accessibility to the Cyc project.
Together with John Mount, Witbrock is credited [1] with genetic art, a kind of Computer-generated art.