Louis Hodes (June 19, 1934 – June 30, 2008) was an American
mathematician,
computer scientist
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Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...
, and
cancer researcher.
Early life and computer science work
Louis Hodes got his
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) from the
Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. He got his
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1962, under
Hartley Rogers
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with a thesis on
computability.
[ With John McCarthy, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he helped produce the earliest implementations of the programming language ]Lisp
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,
and under Marvin Minsky he did early research on visual pattern recognition in Lisp. He is also credited by some with the idea, and an initial implementation, of logic programming.[
]
Cancer research
In 1966 he moved into cancer-related research, specifically at National Institutes of Health and later the National Cancer Institute where he turned his interest in visual pattern recognition to medical imaging
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applications.[ He also worked on efficient algorithms for screening chemical compounds for studying chemical carcinogenesis.][ His work on models of clustering for chemical compounds was pronounced a "milestone" by the Developmental Therapeutics Program of the National Cancer Institute, for "revolutioniz ngthe selection of compounds of interest by measuring the novelty of a chemical structure by comparing it to known compounds."]["Milestone (1981): Hodes model for ranking small molecule structures (sic)", www.cancer.go]
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1934 births
2008 deaths
American computer scientists
Artificial intelligence researchers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Lisp (programming language) people
Scientists from New York City
Programming language designers
Cancer researchers