Marie-Odile Cordier (born 1950) is a retired French computer scientist specializing in

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...

, and in particular in the

diagnosis Diagnosis (: diagnoses) is the identification of the nature and cause of a certain phenomenon. Diagnosis is used in a lot of different academic discipline, disciplines, with variations in the use of logic, analytics, and experience, to determine " ...

discrete event dynamic system In control engineering, a discrete-event dynamic system (DEDS) is a discrete-state, event-driven system of which the state evolution depends entirely on the occurrence of asynchronous discrete events over time. Although similar to continuous-variab ...

s. Before retiring, she was a professor at the

University of Rennes 1 The University of Rennes 1 was a public university located in Rennes, France. It was founded in 1970, after splitting of the historic University of Rennes into two universities. On January 1, 2023, the University of Rennes 1 merged with five gra ...

, where she headed the DREAM team, a project for diagnosis, reasoning, and modeling of discrete event systems at the Research Institute of Computer Science and Random Systems (IRISA).

Education and career

Cordier is originally from Paris, where she was born in 1950. She studied computer science at

Paris-Sud University Paris-Sud University (), also known as the University of Paris — XI (or as the Orsay Faculty of Sciences, University of Paris before 1971), was a French research university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburbs of Paris, ...

, earning a

doctorat de troisième cycle A doctorate (from Latin ''doctor'', meaning "teacher") or doctoral degree is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities and some other educational institutions, derived from the ancient formalism '' licentia docendi'' ("licence to teach ...

in 1979 under the direction of

Jacques Pitrat Jacques Pitrat (born in Feb. 1934, died in Oct. 2019) was one of the French symbolic artificial intelligence pioneers. He developed knowledge based systems, expert systems, and theorem provers, and was a strong advocate of meta-knowledge based s ...

and a doctorat d'état in 1986 under the direction of Daniel Kayser. She completed a

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at Paris-Sud University in 1996. After working as an associate professor at Paris-Sud University, she moved to the University of Rennes as a full professor in 1988. Her doctoral students at Rennes have included

Sylvie Thiébaux Sylvie Thiébaux is a French-Australian computer scientist, whose research in artificial intelligence focuses on automated planning and scheduling, Diagnosis (artificial intelligence), diagnosis, and automated reasoning under uncertainty. She is ...

and

Marie-Christine Rousset Marie-Christine Rousset (born 1958) is a French computer scientist whose research involves knowledge representation, the semantic web, description logic, and data mining. She is a professor of computer science at Grenoble Alpes University, and ...

Recognition

Cordier was named as a fellow of the

European Association for Artificial Intelligence The European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI), formerly European Co-ordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI), is the representative body for the European artificial intelligence community. Overview EurAI was establis ...

(formerly ECCAI) in 2001. She was the 2015 recipient of the lifetime achievement award of the International Workshop on Principles of Diagnosis (DX).

References

External links

DREAM project
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cordier, Marie-Odile 1950 births Living people French computer scientists French women computer scientists Paris-Sud University alumni Fellows of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence