Ronald J. Brachman

American artificial intelligence researcher

Ronald Jay "Ron" Brachman (born 1949) is the director of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech. Previously, he was the Chief Scientist of Yahoo!2

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Born 1949.1

About

Previously, he was the Chief Scientist of Yahoo! and head of Yahoo! Labs (Now Yahoo! Research). Prior to that, he was the Associate Head of Yahoo! Labs and Head of Worldwide Labs and Research Operations.

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Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedHarvard University3
  • Date not recordedPrinceton University3

Brachman earned his B.S.E.E. degree from Princeton University, and his S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University.

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Career

Occupation: psychologist, engineer, artificial intelligence researcher, computer scientist.7

Prior to working at Yahoo!, Brachman worked at DARPA as the Director of the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO), one of DARPA's eight offices at the time. While at IPTO, he helped develop DARPA's Cognitive Systems research efforts. Before that, he worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories (Murray Hill, New Jersey) as the Head of the Artificial Intelligence Principles Research Department (2004) and Director of the Software and Systems Research Laboratory. When AT&T split with Lucent in 1996, he became Communications Services Research Vice President and was one of the founders of AT&T Labs.

He is considered by some to be the godfather of description logic, the logic-based knowledge representation formalism underlying the Web Ontology Language OWL. He was elected a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 1990.

He was a resident of Westfield, New Jersey.

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Personal life

  • CitizenshipUnited States8

Awards

  • 2018Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science9 12
  • 1999ACM Fellow9 11
  • 1990AAAI Fellow9 10
  • Date not recordedIEEE Fellow9