Description
Course notes and research material, largely from 1961 through 1974, in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Psychology,
and other subjects. Includes a syllabus for the 1965 Stanford Ph.D. examination in Artificial Intelligence (the first year
of the Computer Science program at Stanford) as well as papers concerning Waterman's dissertation - a card-playing program
named DEUCE.
Background
Computer scientist; first Ph.D. from Stanford University in Artificial Intelligence. His doctoral research contributed to
the foundation work for what would later come to be labeled "knowledge based systems" (and still later "expert systems").
He helped define the problem areas of production rule architectures, machine learning, and learning apprentice systems. In
1975 he joined the Information Sciences Department at the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California.