Ernest Davis
Ernest Davis’s work concerns the knowledge an AI system needs to reason about ordinary situations. His books connect geographic knowledge with common-sense representations. Davis wrote Representing and Acquiring Geographic Knowledge, published in 1986. He published Representations of Commonsense Knowledge in 1990. Its subject is the representation of everyday knowledge for AI reasoning.
- Now at
- New York University
- Works
- 136
- Citations
- 4,556
- h-index
- 30
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1986
Geographic knowledge
Davis published Representing and Acquiring Geographic Knowledge, published in 1986.
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1990
Common-sense representations
He published Representations of Commonsense Knowledge in 1990. Its subject is the representation of everyday knowledge for AI reasoning.
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2019
Examining AI reliability
Davis and Gary Marcus coauthored Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust, published in 2019.
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2025
Research recognition
AAAI elected Ernest Davis as a Fellow in 2025.
Sources and credits
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