James Robert Slagle (March 1, 1934 – December 3, 2023) was an American
computer scientist notable for his many achievements in
Artificial Intelligence. Since 1984 he has been the Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, with former appointments at
Johns Hopkins University, the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Maryland), the Naval Research Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In 1961 in his dissertation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with
Marvin Minsky, Slagle developed the first expert system, SAINT (Symbolic Automatic INTegrator), which is a heuristic program that solves symbolic integration problems in freshman calculus.[1]
Remarkably, among other recognitions, President Dwight D. Eisenhower awarded him $500 for his outstanding work as a blind student.[1]
James Robert Slagle (1961). A Heuristic Program that Solves Symbolic Integration Problems in Freshman Calculus, Symbolic Automatic Integrator (Saint).
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James Robert Slagle (1963). A Heuristic Program that Solves Symbolic Integration Problems in Freshman Calculus.
Journal of the ACM, Vol. 10, No. 4
James Robert Slagle (1963). Game Trees, M & N Minimaxing, and the M & N alpha-beta procedure. Artificial Intelligence Group Report 3, UCRL-4671, University of California
James Robert Slagle (1964). An Efficient Algorithm for Finding Certain Minimum-Cost Procedures for Making Binary Decisions.
Journal of the ACM, Vol. 11, No. 3
James Robert Slagle (1964). On an algorithm for minimum-cost procedures.
Communications of the ACM, Vol. 7, No. 11
James Robert Slagle (1965). A multipurpose Theorem Proving Heuristic Program that learns.
IFIP Congress 65, Vol. 2
James Robert Slagle (1965). Experiments with a deductive question-answering program.
Communications of the ACM, Vol. 8, No. 12
James Robert Slagle (1967). Automatic Theorem Proving With Renamable and Semantic Resolution.
Journal of the ACM, Vol. 14, No. 4
Erach A. Irani,
John P. Matts,
John M. Long, James Robert Slagle, POSCH group (1989). Using Artificial Neural Nets for Statistical Discovery: Observations after Using Backpropogation, Expert Systems, and Multiple-Linear Regression on Clinical Trial Data. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA, Complex Systems 3,
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