Peter E. Hart(born 1941[2]) is an Americancomputer scientistand entrepreneur. He was chairman and president ofRicoh Innovations,which he founded in 1997. He made significant contributions in the field of computer science in a series of widely cited publications from the years 1967 to 1975 while associated with theArtificial Intelligence CenterofSRI International,a laboratory where he also served as director.
Peter E. Hart | |
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 Peter Hart in 2005 | |
| Alma mater | Stanford University Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Artificial intelligence |
| Institutions | SRI InternationalAI Center Ricoh Innovations |
| Doctoral advisor | Thomas M. Cover[1] |
Education
editHart studied atRensselaer Polytechnic Institute,leading to a BEE degree (1962). He did his graduate studies atStanford University,where he got his MS (1963) and PhD (1966);[3]Thomas M. Cover was his advisor and discovered[4]& co-published a seminal paper on1-NNnearest neighbor search.[5]
Career
editWhile at theSRI InternationalArtificial Intelligence Center,Hart co-authored 20 papers, among them the initial exposition of theA* search algorithmand the variant of theHough transformnow widely used in computer vision for finding straight line segments in images. He also contributed to the development ofShakey the Robot.[6]
Hart andRichard O. Dudaare the authors of "Pattern Classification and Scene Analysis", originally published in 1973. This classic text is a widely cited reference, and the first edition was in print for over 25 years until being superseded by the second edition in 2000.[6]
A strong advocate of artificial intelligence in industry, Hart was the founding director of the Fairchild/Schlumberger Artificial Intelligence Center and co-founder ofSyntelligence,a company specializing in expert systems for financial risk analysis.[citation needed]
Hart is currently Group Senior Vice President at theRicohCompany, Ltd.[citation needed]
Memberships and awards
editHart is anIEEE Fellow,anACM Fellowand anAAAIFellow.[6]
References
edit- ^Nils J. Nilsson(1984)."Introduction to the COMTEX Microfiche Edition of the SRI Artificial Intelligence Center Technical Notes".AI Magazine.Vol. 5, no. 1. p. 43.
- ^"AUT - Úplné zobrazení záznamu".aleph.nkp.cz.Retrieved2022-10-03.
- ^Sagan, Carl (1980).Machine Intelligence and Robotics: Report of the NASA Study Group (Final Report).p. A-2.
- ^Cover 1982,"This Week's Citation Classic: Nearest Neighbor Pattern Classification",Current Contents
- ^"Nearest neighbor pattern classification",Cover & Hart 1967 (IEEE)
- ^abc"Peter E. Hart".SRI International.Archived fromthe originalon 2012-10-03.Retrieved2012-02-05.