Doug Lenat, President and CEO

Doug is one of the world's leading computer scientists, and is both the founder of the CYC® project and the president of Cycorp. He has been a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie-Mellon University and Stanford University. He is a prolific author, whose hundreds of publications include the books

• Knowledge Based Systems in Artificial Intelligence (1982, McGraw-Hill)
• Building Expert Systems (1983, Addison-Wesley)
• Knowledge Representation (1988, Addison-Wesley)
• Building Large Knowledge Based Systems (1989, Addison-Wesley)

His 1976 Stanford thesis earned him the bi-annual IJCAI Computers and Thought Award in 1977. He was one of the original Fellows of the AAAI (American Association for Artificial Intelligence).