Douglas B. Lenat is the
CEO of
Cycorp, Inc. of
Austin, Texas, and has been a prominent researcher in
Artificial Intelligence, especially
machine learning (with his
AM and
Eurisko[?] programs),
knowledge representation,
blackboard systems[?], and "ontological engineering" (with his
Cyc program at
MCC[?] and at
Cycorp). He has also worked in military simulations and published a critique of conventional random-mutation
Darwinism based on his experience with Eurisko. Lenat was one of the original Fellows of the
AAAI[?].
Bogosity is measured in Lenats according to the Jargon File (also known as the Hacker's dictionary).