Researcher

Frederick Hayes-Roth

Frederick Hayes-Roth’s research connects intelligent systems with the architectures that organize their work. His work includes speech understanding and distributed decision systems. Hayes-Roth became Teknowledge’s chairman and chief executive in 1993. He also held earlier technology and research leadership roles there. In July 1998, Hayes-Roth and project leader Lou Coker worked on distributed object technology for wide-area decision-making infrastructure.

Works
133
Citations
8,436
h-index
33

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.

Photo of Frederick Hayes-Roth

Timeline

  1. 1992

    Research recognition

    AAAI elected Frederick Hayes-Roth as a Fellow in 1992.

  2. 1993

    A company leadership role

    Hayes-Roth became Teknowledge’s chairman and chief executive in 1993. He also held earlier technology and research leadership roles there.

  3. 1998

    Distributed decision-making

    In July 1998, Hayes-Roth and project leader Lou Coker worked on distributed object technology for wide-area decision-making infrastructure.

  4. As of October 2026

    Intelligent architectures

    He contributed to Hearsay-II speech understanding and its blackboard architecture, opportunistic planning, and distributed intelligent control.

Sources and credits

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  1. BART Flyer (https://ics.uci.edu/~irus/bart/flyers/98/july98.html) ics.uci.edu. Checked 13 October 2026.
  2. Elected AAAI Fellows — 1992 — Frederick Hayes-Roth aaai.org. Checked 13 October 2026.