Elaine Kant is an American computer scientist known for her work in artificial intelligence, program synthesis, and computational finance.
Education and career
editKant earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University.[1][2] Her 1979 doctoral dissertation was Efficiency Considerations in Program Synthesis: A Knowledge-Based Approach.[1][3]
Kant was a computer science faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University in the early 1980s.[4] As a researcher for Schlumberger in the 1980s and 1990s, she developed SciNapse, a tool for transforming mathematical models in hydrocarbon exploration into computer code. She later founded SciComp, which developed a system for automatic programming in computational finance.[5]
She is president and CEO of SciComp,[1][2] chief scientist of Querium,[1][6] and head of research for StepWise, an online secondary-school mathematics tutoring system developed by Querium.[7]
Recognition
editAs a doctoral student, Kant received a Hertz Fellowship in 1976.[1] She was named a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 1991,[8] and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1997.[1]
Books
editKant is the author of Efficiency in Program Synthesis (1981).[9] She is a coauthor of the 1985 book Programming Expert Systems in OPS5: An Introduction to Rule-Based Programming, on OPS5, a rule-based language.[10]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f Elaine Kant, PhD, 1976 Hertz Fellow, Hertz Foundation, retrieved 2024-06-21
- ^ a b Management team, SciComp, retrieved 2024-06-21
- ^ Kant, E. (1979), Efficiency Considerations in Program Synthesis: A Knowledge-Based Approach, Stanford University
- ^ Smith, Reid G.; Schoen, Eric J.; Tenenbaum, Jay M. (January 2022), "Early AI applications at Schlumberger" (PDF), IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 44 (1), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): 88–102, doi:10.1109/mahc.2022.3149469
- ^ Elaine Kant, Querium, retrieved 2024-06-21
- ^ "Research", StepWise, retrieved 2024-06-21
- ^ Elected AAAI Fellows, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, retrieved 2024-06-21
- ^ Efficiency in Program Synthesis, UMI Research Press, 1981.
- ^ Programming Expert Systems in OPS5: An Introduction to Rule-Based Programming, Addison-Wesley, 1985, with Lee Brownston, Robert Farrell, and Nancy Martin.