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BORN:  September 4, 1927 in Boston, Massachusetts

EDUCATION:
	B.S.  (Mathematics) California Institute of Technology, 1948
	Ph.D. (Mathematics) Princeton University, 1951

HONORS AND SOCIETIES:
	American Mathematical Society
	Association for Computing Machinery
	Sigma Xi
	Sloan Fellow in Physical Science, 1957-59
	ACM National Lecturer, 1961
	IEEE
	A.M. Turing Award from Association for Computing Machinery, 1971

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
	Proctor Fellow, Princeton University, 1950-51
	Higgins Research Instructor in Mathematics,
		Princeton University, 1951-53
	Acting Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
		Stanford University, Sept. 1953 - Jan. 1955
	Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Dartmouth
		College, Feb. 1955 - June 1958
	Assistant Professor of Communication Science,
		M.I.T., 1958 - 1961
	Associate Professor of Communication Science,
		M.I.T., 1961 - 1962
	Professor of Computer Science
		Stanford University, 1962 - present

PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS:
	With Marvin Minsky organized and directed the Artificial
		Intelligence Project at M.I.T.

	Organized and directs Stanford Artificial Intelligence Project

	Developed the LISP programming system for computing with
	symbolic expressions, participated in the development
	of the ALGOL 58 and the ALGOL 60 languages.  Present
	scientific work is in the fields of Artificial
	Intelligence, Computation with Symbolic Expressions,
	Mathematical Theory of Computation, Time-Sharing computer
	systems.