Scott Fahlman

Scott Fahlman
Born	Scott Elliott Fahlman (1948-03-21) March 21, 1948 (age 76) Medina, Ohio, U.S.
Education	Massachusetts Institute of Technology B.S., M.S. (1973) Ph.D. (1977)
Known for	Automated planning and scheduling: blocks world Semantic networks Neural networks Dylan Common Lisp: CMU Common Lisp Lucid Inc.
Awards	Fellow, American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science Natural language processing
Institutions	Carnegie Mellon University
Thesis	NETL: A System for Representing and Using Real-World Knowledge (1977)
Doctoral advisor	Gerald Jay Sussman
Other academic advisors	Patrick Winston
Doctoral students	David S. Touretzky Michael Witbrock
Website	www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/

Scott Elliott Fahlman (born March 21, 1948) is an American computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute and Computer Science Department. He is notable for early work on automated planning and scheduling in a blocks world, on semantic networks, on neural networks (especially the cascade correlation algorithm), on the programming languages Dylan, and Common Lisp (especially CMU Common Lisp), and he was one of the founders of Lucid Inc. During the period when it was standardized, he was recognized as "the leader of Common Lisp."^[1] From 2006 to 2015, Fahlman was engaged in developing a knowledge base named Scone, based in part on his thesis work on the NETL Semantic Network.^[2] He also is credited with coining the use of the emoticon.