Raymond Perrault | |
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Alma mater |
McGill University University of Michigan |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Artificial intelligence |
Institutions |
University of Toronto SRI International |
Doctoral advisor |
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Notable students | James F. Allen |
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Charles Raymond Perrault is an artificial intelligence researcher and a Distinguished Computer Scientist at SRI International. [1] He was a co-principal investigator of the CALO project, which is the predecessor for several AI technologies including Siri. [2]
Perrault received a bachelor of science in mathematics from McGill University and a Ph.D. in computer and communication sciences from the University of Michigan in 1975. [3] [4] [5]
Perrault was a faculty member of the University of Toronto from 1974 to 1983, rising from assistant to full professor. [2]
He started at SRI International in 1983, and was the director of the Artificial Intelligence Center from 1987 to 2017. While at SRI, he was a co-principal investigator of the CALO project and is also a founder of the Center for the Study of Language and Information. [2]
Perrault was the co-editor in chief of the journal Artificial Intelligence from 2001 to 2010, the president and a trustee of the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence from 1992 to 2001, [6] and was president of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 1983. [2] [7]
In 1990, Perrault was named a founding fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and in 2018 of American Association for Advancement of Science [8] [3] [9] In July 2011, he won the Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award from the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence. [7]