People

Bruce G. Buchanan, University Professor of Computer Science

Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Computer Programming

PhD, Michigan State, 1966

Buchanan@cs.pitt.edu

Bruce G. Buchanan is University Professor of Computer Science, and director of the Intelligent System Program, with joint appointments in the Departments of Philosophy and Medicine, and a fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science at Pitt. His main research interest is artificial intelligence, including programs and methods for knowledge acquisition and machine learning, scientific hypothesis formation, and construction of expert systems. He is co-author (with R.K. Lindsay, E.A. Feigenbaum, and J. Lederberg) of Applications of Artificial Intelligence for Chemical Inference (1980), (with Edward H. Shortliffe) of Rule-Based Expert Systems (1984), and (with David Wilkins) of Readings in Knowledge Acquisition and Learning (1993). He is a member of the National Academy of Science Institute of Medicine, past-president of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, fellow of the AAAI and the College of Medical Informatics, and an editor of the journals Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning