Boi V. Faltings
Boi V. Faltings connects structured AI reasoning with constraints, coordination, and practical systems. He founded EPFL’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1987. The laboratory developed shared research in qualitative reasoning, constraint satisfaction, and distributed problem-solving. Faltings and Christian Frei founded Iconomic Systems in 1997 to commercialize network-routing research. The company relaunched in 1999 for travel-commerce software and was sold in 2001. These are separate company events. Several researchers contributed to the underlying research.
Timeline
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1987
The AI laboratory at EPFL
Boi Faltings founded EPFL’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1987. Its early work studied model-based and qualitative reasoning.
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1990s
Constraints and distributed reasoning
The laboratory conducted shared work on constraint satisfaction, abstraction, and problem reformulation during the 1990s. Several researchers developed and applied these methods.
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1997
Founding Iconomic
Boi Faltings and Christian Frei founded Iconomic Systems in 1997 to commercialize a network-routing technique. This was the company’s founding.
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1999
A travel-commerce relaunch
Iconomic relaunched in 1999 to develop software for travel commerce. The company was sold in 2001.
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2012
Research recognition
AAAI elected Boi V. Faltings as a Fellow in 2012.
Sources and credits
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