Knowledge Systems Laboratory (KSL) was an

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech r ...

research laboratory within the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University until 2007, located in the

Gates Computer Science Building, Stanford __notoc__ The Gates Computer Science Building, or Gates building for short, is an L-shaped building that houses the Computer Science Department as well as the Computer Systems Laboratory at 353 Jane Stanford Way, Stanford University, California. ...

. Work focused on

knowledge representation Knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR, KR&R, KR²) is the field of artificial intelligence (AI) dedicated to representing information about the world in a form that a computer system can use to solve complex tasks such as diagnosing a medic ...

for shareable engineering knowledge bases and systems, computational environments for modelling physical devices, architectures for adaptive intelligent systems, and

expert system In artificial intelligence, an expert system is a computer system emulating the decision-making ability of a human expert. Expert systems are designed to solve complex problems by reasoning through bodies of knowledge, represented mainly as if� ...

s for science and engineering. KSL had projects with Stanford Medical Informatics (SMI), the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL), the Stanford Formal Reasoning Group (SFRG), the Stanford Logic Group, and the Stanford Center for Design Research (CDR).

Past members

This is a partial list (in alphabetical order) of past members: *

Edward Feigenbaum Edward Albert Feigenbaum (born January 20, 1936) is a computer scientist working in the field of artificial intelligence, and joint winner of the 1994 ACM Turing Award. He is often called the "father of expert systems." Education and early life ...

* Richard Fikes * Diana E. Forsythe * Tom Gruber * William Clancey *

Alon Y. Halevy Alon Yitzchack Halevy (until 2000: Levy) is an Israeli-American computer scientist and a leading researcher in the area of data integration. He was a research scientist at Google from 2005 to 2015, when he left to become head of Recruit Institut ...

* Deborah L. McGuinness * Paulo Pinheiro *

Derek H. Sleeman Derek H. Sleeman is Emeritus Professor of Computing Science at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland (since 2008), and Visiting Professor, in the School of Medicine and the University of Glasgow (since 2009). He is a Fellow of the Royal Societ ...

* Barbara Hayes-Roth * Bruce G. Buchanan * Ruth Duran Huard * Lee Brownston

References

* Archived Publications
"The Edward A. Feigenbaum Papers: Work in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science at Stanford University"
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