David Ferrucci speaks at TEDx Binghamton University

David Ferrucci was the

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who in 2007–2011 led a team of IBM and academic researchers and engineers to the development of the Watson computer system that won a television quiz. Ferrucci graduated from Manhattan College, with a B.S. degree in biology and from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in 1994 with a Ph.D. degree in computer science specializing in

knowledge representation and reasoning Knowledge representation and reasoning (KRR, KR&R, KR²) is the field of artificial intelligence (AI) dedicated to representing information about the world in a form that a computer system can use to solve complex tasks such as diagnosing a medic ...

. He joined IBM's Thomas J. Watson in 1995 and left in 2012 to join

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. He is also the Founder, CEO, and Chief Scientist o
Elemental Cognition
a venture exploring a new field of study calle
natural learning
which Ferrucci describes as 'artificial intelligence that understands the world the way people do.' Ferrucci is interviewed in the 2018 documentary on artificial intelligence Do You Trust This Computer?

Books

Ferrucci contributed one chapter to the 2018 book ''Architects of Intelligence: The Truth About AI from the People Building it'' by the American futurist Martin Ford.

References

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