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New Artificial Intelligence Hall of Fame inducts four MIT professors

IEEE Computer Society magazine honors AI pioneers in inaugural
Hall of Fame.

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Four artificial intelligence (AI) pioneers from MIT
have been chosen as inductees in the inaugural AI Hall of Fame, established by
the IEEE Computer Society’s IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine.

The magazine’s inaugural class comprised 10 influential leaders from the
field. The four researchers from MIT were: Tim Berners-Lee, the 3Com Founders
Professor of Engineering, head of the Decentralized Information Group and
inventor of the World Wide Web; Institute Professor Noam Chomsky, a professor
emeritus in MIT’s Department of Linguistics and Philosophy; John McCarthy, a
former professor of electrical engineering and inventor of the computer
programming language Lisp; and Marvin Minsky, the Toshiba Professor of Media
Arts and Sciences and a professor of electrical engineering and computer
science.

The technical magazine, in celebration of its 25th anniversary,
created the Hall of Fame to honor the lifetime achievements of senior
researchers in the fields of AI and intelligent systems. Inductees were chosen
based on nominations by IEEE members, and in the hall’s first year, editors said
they found a deep well of qualified candidates.

“When we began our search
for candidates, it quickly became clear that there was an immense number of
amazing, talented individuals conducting relevant and innovative research in the
AI and intelligent systems field across the globe,” Intelligent Systems
Editor-in-Chief Fei-Yue Wang said in a release. “The task of selecting from such
an accomplished list was an extremely difficult process.”

The other
inductees, announced in the July/August issue of the magazine, were Douglas
Engelbart, Edward Albert Feigenbaum, Nils J. Nilsson, Judea Pearl, Raj Reddy and
Lotfi Zadeh.

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