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Dr. Rick Hayes-Roth
Rick Hayes-Roth is currently a
professor in the Information Sciences Department at the Naval Postgraduate
School in Monterey, California. At NPS he teaches the “capstone” course on
strategy and policy in exploiting information technology. Prior to joining the
NPS faculty, he was the Chief Technology Officer for Software at
Hewlett-Packard. Before that he was Chairman and Chief Executive of two Silicon
Valley companies which he co-founded. He was the program director for research
in Information Processing at The Rand Corporation and, prior to that, was one
of the co-inventors of the first continuous speech understanding systems,
Hearsay-II, which became the ubiquitous “blackboard architecture.”
Dr. Hayes-Roth has written more than 100 published papers and co-authored three other books, Building Expert Systems, Pattern-Directed Inference System, and Radical Simplicity: Transforming Computers into Me-Centric Appliances. He’s held faculty positions at MIT, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon, as well as NPS. He’s a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a member of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Dr. Hayes-Roth is an avid private pilot and commutes by air from Palo Alto to Monterey in a single-engine Piper Dakota. He’s been married to Barbara Hayes-Roth since their graduate school days, and they have three children.