Ronald J. Brachman
Template:Short description Template:Infobox scientistRonald Jay "Ron" Brachman (born 1949) is the director of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Previously, he was the Chief Scientist of Yahoo! and head of Yahoo! Labs (Now Yahoo! Research). Prior to that, he was the Associate Head of Yahoo! Labs and Head of Worldwide Labs and Research Operations.
Education
Brachman earned his B.S.E.E. degree from Princeton University, and his S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University.
Career
Prior to working at Yahoo!, Brachman worked at DARPA as the Director of the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO), one of DARPA's eight offices at the time. While at IPTO, he helped develop DARPA's Cognitive Systems research efforts. Before that, he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill, New Jersey) as the Head of the Artificial Intelligence Principles Research Department (2004) and Director of the Software and Systems Research Laboratory. When AT&T split with Lucent in 1996, he became Communications Services Research Vice President and was one of the founders of AT&T Labs.
He is considered by some to be the godfatherTemplate:Citation needed of description logic, the logic-based knowledge representation formalism underlying the Web Ontology Language OWL. He was elected a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 1990.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
He was a resident of Westfield, New Jersey.<ref>The Westfield Leader, OUR 115th YEAR - ISSUE NO. 07-2005, February 17, 2005. Template:Webarchive</ref>
Publications
He is the co-author with Hector Levesque of a popular book on knowledge representation and reasoning<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and many scientific papers.<ref name="microsoft">Template:AcademicSearch</ref><ref name="dblp">Template:DBLP</ref><ref>Ronald J. Brachman (1983) "What IS-A is and isn't. An Analysis of Taxonomic Links in Semantic Networks"; IEEE Computer, 16 (10); October.</ref>
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- Living people
- American artificial intelligence researchers
- Knowledge representation
- Harvard University alumni
- Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
- Cornell Tech faculty
- Fellows of the IEEE
- Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
- Yahoo! employees
- 1959 births
- Presidents of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence