Fanya S. Montalvo (born in Monterey, Mexico) is a Mexican computer scientist.
Education and career
She received a Ph.D. in computer and information science from the
University of Massachusetts Amherst
The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst) is a public land-grant research university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Massachusetts system and was founded in 1863 as the ...
in 1976. Her dissertation was titled ''Aftereffects, Adaptation, and Plasticity: A Neural Model for Tunable Feature Space.'' She was advised by Michael Anthony Arbib. Montalvo has been a research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Labs, HP, MIT, and
Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC ), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president until ...
.
Montalvo works in the field of inconsistency robustness. She is on the governing board of the International Society for Inconsistency Robustness. According to
Rosalind Picard
Rosalind Wright Picard (born 1962) is an American scholar and inventor who is Grover M. Hermann Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at MIT, founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Lab, and co-founder ...
, she is involved in considerations within
emotional computing
Affective computing is the study and development of systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, process, and simulate human affects. It is an interdisciplinary field spanning computer science, psychology, and cognitive science. While som ...
. She is known for having coined the term "
AI-complete
In the field of artificial intelligence (AI), tasks that are hypothesized to require artificial general intelligence to solve are informally known as AI-complete or AI-hard.Shapiro, Stuart C. (1992)Artificial Intelligence In Stuart C. Shapiro (Ed. ...
"
[John C. Mallery. "Thinking About Foreign Policy: Finding an Appropriate Role for Artificially Intelligent Computers" Master's thesis, M.I.T. Political Science Department. 1988] to denote an artificial intelligence task that is equivalent in difficulty to that of solving the problem of
strong AI.
Publications
* Fanya S. Montalvo
pdf. shown at 6th in list (1st retrieval address)"Diagram understanding:The Intersection of computer vision and graphics"
MIT A.I. Lab Memo 873. November 1983. (retrieved 16:55(GMT)30.10.2011)
* Fanya S. Montalvo. "Consensus versus Competition in Neural Networks: A Comparative Analysis of Three Models" International Journal of Man-Machine Studies 7(3). 1975.
* Fanya S. Montalvo
Diagram Understanding: Associating Symbolic Descriptions with Images
IEEE
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) organization, 501(c)(3) public charity professional organization for electrical engineering, electronics engineering, and other related disciplines.
The IEEE ...
Workshop on Visual Languages. 1986 (retrieved 18:01(GMT)30.10.2011)
* Fanya S. Montalvo and Caxton C. Foster
"An Algorithm for Intercell Communication in a Tesselated Automaton"
published by:IEEE Computer Society (retrieved 18:06(GMT) 30.10.2011)
* Fanya S. Montalvo
"Consensus versus Competition in Neural Networks: A Comparative Analysis of Three Models"
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, vol. 7, no. 3, 1975 (retrieved 18:09(GMT)30.10.2011)
* Fanya S. Montalvo
"Knowledge visualization: A new framework for interactive graphic interface design"
Applied Intelligence:Volume 1, Number 4, 297-309, (retrieved 18:27(GMT) 30.10.2011)
* Robert E. Filman, John Lamping, Fanya S. Montalvo. "Meta-Knowledge and Meta-Reasoning" IJCAI-83.
* Fanya S. Montalvo and Naomi Weisstein
"An Empirical Method that provides the basis for an organization of relaxation labeling process for vision"
retrieved 18:30(GMT)30.10.2011(shows entire report pages 'University of California''* Fanya S. Montalvo. "Human Vision Paradox Implicates Relaxation Model" IJCAI-77
* Fanya S. Montalvo
"The Singularity is Here"
Inconsistency Robustness, Vol. 52 Studies in Logic, College Publications (2015)
References
UMASSCS
retrieved 18:04(GMT) 30.10.2011
External links
2011 ACM, Inc.
17:53(UTC) 30.10.2011 (list of publications)
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1947 births
Living people
Mexican computer scientists
Mexican women computer scientists