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During his time at MIT, Hewitt supervised the studies of a number of doctoral students, including Dr. Russell Atkinson, Dr. Gerald Barber, Dr. Peter Bishop, Professor William Clinger, Dr. Peter de Jong, Dr. Irene Greif, Dr. Kenneth Kahn, and Professor Akinori Yonezawa. During his time at MIT, Hewitt supervised the studies of a number of doctoral students, including Dr. Russell Atkinson, Dr. Gerald Barber, Dr. Peter Bishop, Professor William Clinger, Dr. Peter de Jong, Dr. Irene Greif, Dr. Kenneth Kahn, and Professor Akinori Yonezawa.{{cite needed}}
Hewitt was inducted into MIT's ''Quarter Century Club'', marking 25 years of employment at MIT, in March of 1996.<ref>{{cite web|author = MIT News Office |title = Quarter Century Club inducts 73 new members |url = http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1996/qcc-0410.html| date = April 10, 1996| accessdate = 2007-06-19}}</ref> Hewitt was inducted into MIT's ''Quarter Century Club'', marking 25 years of employment at MIT, in March of 1996.<ref>{{cite web|author = MIT News Office |title = Quarter Century Club inducts 73 new members |url = http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1996/qcc-0410.html| date = April 10, 1996| accessdate = 2007-06-19}}</ref>

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Carl E. Hewitt is an Associate Professor (Emeritus) in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Hewitt obtained his PhD in mathematics at MIT in 1971, under the supervision of Seymour Papert, Marvin Minsky, and Mike Paterson. He is known for his design of Planner , which was the first Artificial Intelligence programming language based on procedural plans that were invoked using pattern-directed invocation from assertions and goals. He is also known for his work on the Actor model of computation, which influenced the development of the Scheme programming language and the π calculus, and served as an inspiration for several other programming languages.

Biography

Work on Planner

Hewitt's work on Planner introduced the notion of the "procedural embedding of knowledge", which was an alternative to the logical approach to knowledge encoding for artificial intelligence pioneered by John McCarthy. A subset of Planner called Micro Planner was implemented by Gerry Sussman, Eugene Charniak and Terry Winograd. It was used in Winograd's famous SHRDLU program, and Eugene Charniak's natural language story understanding work.

MIT career

During his time at MIT, Hewitt supervised the studies of a number of doctoral students, including Dr. Russell Atkinson, Dr. Gerald Barber, Dr. Peter Bishop, Professor William Clinger, Dr. Peter de Jong, Dr. Irene Greif, Dr. Kenneth Kahn, and Professor Akinori Yonezawa.

Hewitt was inducted into MIT's Quarter Century Club, marking 25 years of employment at MIT, in March of 1996. He retired from the faculty of the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science during the 1999-2000 school year.

Selected works

References

  1. "MIT EECS - Department Faculty and Senior Research Staff". Retrieved 2007-05-29.
  2. Carl Hewitt. PLANNER: A Language for Proving Theorems in Robots IJCAI. 1969.
  3. Filman, Robert (1984). "Actors". Coordinated Computing - Tools and Techniques for Distributed Software. McGraw-Hill. pp. pp. 145. ISBN 0-07-022439-0. Carl Hewitt and his colleagues at M.I.T. are developing the Actor model. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); line feed character in |title= at position 25 (help)
  4. Krishnamurthi, Shriram (December 1994). "An Introduction to Scheme". Crossroads. 1 (2).
  5. Milner, Robin (January 1993). "ACM Turing Award Lecture: The Elements of Interaction" (PDF). Communications of the ACM. 36 (1).
  6. Mark S. Miller (2006). "Robust Composition - Towards a Unified Approach to Access Control and Concurrency Control" (PDF). PhD dissertation. Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved 2007-05-26. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help); line feed character in |title= at position 21 (help)
  7. Carl Hewitt. Procedural Embedding of Knowledge In Planner IJCAI. 1971.
  8. Gerry Sussman and Terry Winograd. Micro-planner Reference Manual AI Memo No, 203, MIT Project MAC, July 1970.
  9. Terry Winograd. Procedures as a Representation for Data in a Computer Program for Understanding Natural Language MIT AI TR-235. January 1971.
  10. Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert. “Progress Report on Artificial Intelligence” MIT AI Memo 252. 1971.
  11. MIT News Office (April 10, 1996). "Quarter Century Club inducts 73 new members". Retrieved 2007-06-19.
  12. John V. Guttag (2000). "MIT Reports to the President 1999–2000 - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science". Retrieved 2007-06-19.

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