Jerome Feldman
Jerome Feldman developed AI research in vision, inference and language, including work on a neural theory of language. Feldman earned a Rochester physics degree in 1960, a Pittsburgh mathematics master’s in 1961 and a Carnegie Mellon doctorate in computer science and mathematics in 1964. He later worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory on associative processing. Feldman published From Molecule to Metaphor: A Neural Theory of Language in 2006. He also delivered a 2007 keynote on language understanding and unified cognitive science.
- Works
- 160
- Citations
- 7,950
- h-index
- 42
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Timeline
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1960–1964
Training in physics, mathematics and computing
Feldman earned a Rochester physics degree in 1960, a Pittsburgh mathematics master’s in 1961 and a Carnegie Mellon doctorate in computer science and mathematics in 1964. He later worked at MIT Lincoln Laboratory on associative processing.
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1966–1974
Research at Stanford
Feldman held Stanford assistant and associate professor roles from 1966 to 1974 and became an associate director of its AI Lab in 1970. His research during that period covered vision, robotics, probabilistic reasoning and grammatical inference.
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1974–1998
Building research institutions
Feldman moved to Rochester in 1974 to establish its Computer Science Department. Feldman became ICSI’s founding director and a Berkeley professor in 1988, and served as institute director until 1998.
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2006–2007
A neural account of language
Feldman published From Molecule to Metaphor: A Neural Theory of Language in 2006. He also delivered a 2007 keynote on language understanding and unified cognitive science.
Sources and credits
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