Description
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.
Background
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.
Extent
86.5 Linear Feet
and 89,702.3 megabytes
Restrictions
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.
Availability
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.