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Ronald Prescott Loui is an American computer scientist, currently working as a professor of
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at
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. He is known for having supplied first-hand biographical information on
Barack Obama Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the U ...
about his time in
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. Previously, he has been a professor at
Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis (WashU or WUSTL) is a private research university with its main campus in St. Louis County, and Clayton, Missouri. Founded in 1853, the university is named after George Washington. Washington University i ...
and
University of Illinois Springfield The University of Illinois Springfield (UIS) is a public university in Springfield, Illinois. The university was established in 1969 as Sangamon State University by the Illinois General Assembly and became a part of the University of Illinois s ...
.


Biography

Loui earned his Bachelor's degree from
Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of highe ...
in Applied Mathematics in 1982. Loui earned his Ph.D. under Henry E. Kyburg, at the
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and completed a postdoc at
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between 1987 and 1988 under
Patrick Suppes Patrick Colonel Suppes (; March 17, 1922 – November 17, 2014) was an American philosopher who made significant contributions to philosophy of science, the theory of measurement, the foundations of quantum mechanics, decision theory, psych ...
and
Amos Tversky Amos Nathan Tversky ( he, עמוס טברסקי; March 16, 1937 – June 2, 1996) was an Israeli cognitive and mathematical psychologist and a key figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias and handling of risk. Much of his ...
. From 1988 to 2008, he was an associate professor of Computer Science at Washington University in St. Louis in the School of Engineering, having been
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in 1994. He was also associated with multiple departments outside of Engineering, as well as several research centers. While at WashU, He organized the first Harvard internet alumni club and built a citation-based search engine for legal opinions in the early 1990s. He left academia for a few years to join industry. Between 2012 and 2015, he was an assistant professor at
University of Illinois Springfield The University of Illinois Springfield (UIS) is a public university in Springfield, Illinois. The university was established in 1969 as Sangamon State University by the Illinois General Assembly and became a part of the University of Illinois s ...
. Loui is a leading advocate of
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in
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and a leading proponent of
scripting languages A scripting language or script language is a programming language that is used to manipulate, customize, and automate the facilities of an existing system. Scripting languages are usually interpreted at runtime rather than compiled. A scriptin ...
. He is co-patent holder of a
deep packet inspection Deep packet inspection (DPI) is a type of data processing that inspects in detail the data being sent over a computer network, and may take actions such as alerting, blocking, re-routing, or logging it accordingly. Deep packet inspection is oft ...
hardware device that could read and edit the contents of packets as they stream through a network. This was a key technology sought by the
DARPA The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military. Originally known as the Adv ...
Information Awareness Office The Information Awareness Office (IAO) was established by the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in January 2002 to bring together several DARPA projects focused on applying surveillance and information technology ...
and Disruptive Technology Office under
Total Information Awareness Total Information Awareness (TIA) was a mass detection program by the United States Information Awareness Office. It operated under this title from February to May 2003 before being renamed Terrorism Information Awareness. Based on the concep ...
. Loui also consulted for Cyc, a famous
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program created by Doug Lenat. Loui supervised students in a
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Research Experiences for Undergraduates Research Experiences for Undergraduates (or REUs) are competitive summer research programs in the United States for undergraduates studying science, engineering, or mathematics. The programs are sponsored by the National Science Foundation, and a ...
program that produced several current professors of computing, and the author of the original
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search engine.


References


External links


Prof. Loui's old academic web site

List of Prof. Loui's papers and citations

Some of Prof. Loui's awk programs at awk.info

A comic book character based on Professor Loui
in an Obama biography by J. Mariotte {{DEFAULTSORT:Loui, Ronald 1961 births Living people Punahou School alumni People from Honolulu Washington University in St. Louis faculty University of Illinois at Springfield faculty Google people Case Western Reserve University faculty Harvard College alumni University of Rochester alumni