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

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. At

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, he earned an M.S. and then a PhD in 1969. Green worked at the

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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