Woody Bledsoe
| Woodrow Wilson Bledsoe |
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| Born |
(1921-11-12)November 12, 1921
Maysville, Oklahoma |
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| Died |
October 4, 1995(1995-10-04) (aged 73)
ALS |
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| Thesis |
Separative Measures for Topological Spaces (1953) |
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| Doctoral advisor |
Anthony Perry Morse |
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| Doctoral students |
Robert Anderson, Robert S. Boyer, Peter Bruell, Stephen Darden, Guohui Feng, Larry Hines, Dallas Lankford, Vesko Marinov, John Minor, Mark Moriconi, James Morris, Donald Simon, William Tyson, John Ulrich, Tie-Cheng Wang, Charles Wilks |
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| Notable awards |
IJCAI Distinguished Service Award 1991, AMS Milestone Award 1991 |
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| Spouse |
Virginia (née Norgaard) |
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| Children |
Margaret, Greg, Pam, Lance |
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Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Bledsoe (November 12, 1921 – October 4, 1995) was a mathematician, computer scientist, and prominent educator. He is one of the founders of artificial intelligence, making early contributions in pattern recognition[1] and automated theorem proving.[2][3][4][5] He continued to make significant contributions to AI throughout his long career.
Bledsoe joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as an adult, and served in the church as a Bishop, counselor to the Stake Presidency, and Stake Patriarch. He also served as a leader in the Boy Scouts of America.[6][7] Bledsoe died on October 4, 1995 of ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease.
Notes
- ↑ W.W. Bledsoe (1966). "Some Results on Multicategory Pattern Recognition". J.ACM 13 (2): 304–316.
- ↑ W.W. Bledsoe (1971). "Splitting and Reduction Heuristics in Automatic Theorem Proving" (PDF). Artif. Intell. 2 (1): 55–77.
- ↑ W.W. Bledsoe (Sep 1975). "A New Method for Proving Certain Presburger Formulas". Proc. IJCAI (PDF). pp. 15–21.
- ↑ W.W. Bledsoe (1977). "Non-Resolution Theorem Proving". Artificial Intelligence 9: 1–35. doi:10.1016/0004-3702(77)90012-1. — Preceding technical report ATP29 (Sep.1975)
- ↑ W.W. Bledsoe and Kenneth Kunen and Robert E. Shostak (1985). "Completeness Results for Inequality Provers". Artif. Intell. 27 (3): 255–288. — Preceding technical report ATP65 (1983)
- ↑ Memorial Resolution – Woodrow W. Bledsoe
- ↑ "UT science pioneer `Woody' Bledsoe dies". Austin American-Statesman. October 6, 1995. Retrieved 13 March 2013.
Further reading
- Boyer, Anne Olivia; Boyer, Robert S. (1991). "A Biographical Sketch of W. W. Bledsoe". In Boyer, Robert S. Automated Reasoning: Essays in Honor of Woody Bledsoe. Kluwer Academic Publishers Group. pp. 1–29. CiteSeerX: 10.1.1.57.3396.
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