Cordell Green (born 1941) was an American computer scientist who was the director and chief scientist of the
Kestrel Institute.
Green received a B.A. and B.S. from
Rice University
William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University, is a Private university, private research university in Houston, Houston, Texas, United States. Established in 1912, the university spans 300 acres.
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. At
Stanford University
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, he earned an M.S.
and then a PhD in 1969.
Green worked at the
DARPA
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Information Processing Techniques Office
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, where he helped to plan the Speech Understanding Research Project and also served as an assistant to
Lawrence Roberts, who was then creating
ARPANET
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. At Stanford, Green was a lecturer and assistant professor of computer science and was part of the Artificial Intelligence Group at the Stanford Research Institute (now known as
SRI International
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).
Later, he worked at Systems Control, Inc., a research firm in California, as their chief scientist for computer systems.
In 1985, Green was awarded the
Grace Murray Hopper Award for establishing the theoretical basis of the field of
logic programming
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.
In 2002, he was awarded the
Stevens Award for "contributions to methods for software and systems development". He is a fellow of the
ACM,
AAAI, and
ASE.
References
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Living people
1941 births
American computer scientists
Rice University alumni
Stanford University alumni
Grace Murray Hopper Award laureates
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
1994 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery