Ronald Loui

Ronald Prescott Loui is an American computer scientist, currently working as a professor of computer science at Case Western Reserve University. He is known for having supplied first-hand biographical information on Barack Obama about his time in Hawaii.[1][2][3][4]

Biography

Loui earned his Ph.D. under Henry E. Kyburg, and spent postdoctoral time at Stanford under Patrick Suppes and Amos Tversky.[5] He organized the first Harvard internet alumni club and built a citation-based search engine for legal opinions in the early 1990s.[5]

Loui is a leading advocate of defeasible reasoning in artificial intelligence and a leading proponent of scripting languages. He is co-patent holder of a deep packet inspection hardware device that could read and edit the contents of packets as they stream through a network.[6] This was a key technology sought by the DARPA Information Awareness Office and Disruptive Technology Office under Total Information Awareness. Loui also consulted for Cyc, a famous Artificial Intelligence program created by Doug Lenat.

Loui supervised students in a National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates program that produced several current professors of computing, and the author of the original Google search engine.

References
  1. Ramos, Connie (2008). "Our Friend Barry: Classmates' Recollections of Barack Obama and Punahou School"
  2. The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
  3. Yes We Can: A Biography of Barack Obama by Garen Thomas, 2008
  4. Obama's link to Hawaii not ignored by islanders - The Washington Post, Apr 30, 2013
  5. "Professor Loui's Home Page at Washington University in St. Louis". Retrieved February 23, 2012.
  6. "Methods, systems, and devices using reprogrammable hardware for high-speed processing of streaming data to find a redefinable pattern and respond thereto – US Patent 7093023 Abstract". Patentstorm.us. Archived from the original on June 12, 2011. Retrieved March 16, 2011.
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