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Call Number: SC0340
Creator:
Feigenbaum, Edward A.
Title: Edward A. Feigenbaum papers
Dates: 1950-2007
Physical Description:
86 Linear feet and 89,702.3 megabytes
Summary: Collection primarily concerns his work in artificial intelligence at Stanford University and includes administrative files,
correspondence, project files, trip files, proposals, reports, reprints, Artificial Intelligence Lab memos, audio tapes, video
tapes, and files on computer programs, mainly DENDRAL, MOLGEN, ARPA, EPAM, and SUMEX.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives.
Stanford University Libraries.
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Gift of Edward A. Feigenbaum.
The collection is open for research. The first two accessions have been digitized and are available online here:
http://saltworks.stanford.edu/ . For use of paper materials, requests must be made at least 48 hours in advance of intended use.
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Edward A. Feigenbaum Papers (SC0340). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
The first two accessions of the collection have been digitized and are available online here:
http://saltworks.stanford.edu/ .
Computer scientist. Feigenbaum received his B.S., 1956, and his Ph.D., 1959, in electrical engineering from Carnegie Institute
of Technology. He completed a Fulbright Fellowship at the National Physics Laboratory and in 1960 went to the University of
California, Berkeley, to teach in the School of Business Administration. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1965 in the Dept.
of Computer Science; he served as Director of the Stanford Computation Center from 1965 to 1968 and as chairman of the Department
from 1976 to 1981. Feigenbaum is a leading national figure in artificial intelligence and has developed computer resources
for interactive research between medical and scientific collaborators on a national and global scale.
Scope and Content of Collection
Collection primarily concerns his work in artificial intelligence at Stanford University and includes administrative files,
correspondence, project files, trip files, proposals, reports, reprints, Artificial Intelligence Lab memos, audio tapes, video
tapes, and files on computer programs, mainly DENDRAL, MOLGEN, ARPA, EPAM, and SUMEX. Also includes manuscript and published
editions of his work COMPUTERS AND THOUGHT.
Stanford University. Computer Science Dept.--Faculty.
ARPA computer network.
Artificial intelligence.
Computer programs.
DENDRAL (computer programs).
Expert systems (Computer science)