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19761970s
Drew McDermott
AI researcher focusing on planning and a sharp critic of AI hype terminology.
Organizations
MITYale University
Major Achievements
- •Authored 'Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity' (1976), criticizing researchers for giving programs grand, anthopomorphic names that hid their simplistic logic.
- •Made massive contributions to spatial reasoning and automated planning.
- •Developed non-monotonic logic systems.