Frederick Hayes-Roth (born 1947, né Frederick Roth) is an American computer scientist and educator. His principal work focuses on how to use computing processes to winnow data down to only those information items that are valuable to the receiver, using technology to deliver those items, and in designing IT systems structured for this task. Frederick Hayes-Roth is also known as Rick Roth and has published under the names Rick Hayes-Roth and Frederick Roth.

Career

He was the Chief Technology Officer for Software at

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from 2000 to 2001. Before that (1981–2000) he was chairman and chief executive of two

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companies which he co-founded. One was Teknowledge Corporation, founded with

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. He was the program director for research in Information Processing at the

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from 1976 to 1981. That research program was prolific and influential, leading to numerous systems and research paradigms, including the Opportunistic Model of Planning (one of the 10 most cited papers in Cognitive Science), the rule-based syste
ROSIE
a number of heuristic expert systems, Distributed Fleet Control, and methods for non-monotonic reasoning and learning in knowledge networks. Prior to that (1976), was one of the co-inventors of the first continuous speech understanding systems, Hearsay-II, which became the “ blackboard architecture.” Hayes-Roth held faculty positions at

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, and

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. In 2003 he became a professor in the

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Department at the

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(NPS) in

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. At NPS he has taught hundreds of mid-career leaders in DOD through his "capstone course" on IT Strategy and Policy at NPS. The focus of that course has been on ways to radically improve the success of DOD IT system efforts. In 2011, Hayes-Roth co-founded Truth Seal Corporation, a non-profit, in a response to the glut of information that makes it difficult to judge the veracity of information. He is a Fellow of the

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, which cited him as follows: :For leadership in commercialization of expert system technology; for the co-development of Hearsay II and opportunistic-planning; and for the technical management of ROSIE, M.1, S.1, and ABE. Hayes-Roth is also a senior member of the

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and a member of the

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Notes

References

Hayes-Roth, F., C. Blais, et al. (2008)
How to Implement National Information Sharing Strategy
AFCEA-GMU C4I Center Symposium: Critical Issues in C4I, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, AFCEA. Hayes-Roth, F. and C. Blais (2008). "''A Rich Semantic Model of Track as a Foundation for Sharing Beliefs Regarding Dynamic Objects and Events''." Intelligent Decision Technologies 2(1): 53–72. Hayes-Roth, F. (2006)
Model-Based Communication Networks and VIRT: Orders of Magnitude Better for Information Superiority
MILCOM 2006, Washington, DC, IEEE.
Infoglut
an ACM article by Peter Denning on VIRT. ''Communications of the ACM'', Volume 49, Issue 7 (July 2006). "Honesty Is the Best Policy," ''Ubiquity Magazine'', a publication of the ACM, Volume 2011 Issue July, July 2011
Part OnePart Two
Interviews with Rick Hayes-Roth.

External links

NPS vita''Truthiness Fever''''Hyper-beings''''Radical Simplicity''''Building Expert Systems''''Pattern-Directed Inference Systems''Worldcat
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