Douglas Lenat
Douglas B. Lenat is the
CEO of Cycorp, Inc of
Austin, Texas, and has been a prominent researcher in
Artificial Intelligence, especially
machine learning (with his
AM and Eurisko programs),
knowledge representation, blackboard systems, and "ontological engineering" (with his
Cyc program at MCC and at
Cycorp). He has also worked in military simulations and published a critique of conventional random-mutation
Darwinism based on his experience with Eurisko. Lenat was one of the original Fellows of the AAAI.
Bogosity is measured in Lenats according to the Jargon File (also known as the Hacker's dictionary).