19 Facts About Anthony Oettinger

Anthony "Tony" Gervin Oettinger was a German-born American linguist and computer scientist best known for his work on information resources policy.

Anthony Oettinger served as a consultant to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board and the National Security Council and NASA's Apollo moon-landing program.

Anthony Oettinger was recognized for his work in the intelligence community with the naming of the Anthony G Oettinger School of Science and Technology Intelligence of the National Intelligence University.

Anthony Oettinger was Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Mathematics and Professor of Information Resources Policy at Harvard.

Anthony Oettinger was born in 1929 in Nuremberg, Germany to a French mother and German father.

Anthony Oettinger graduated first in his class from the Bronx High School of Science and entered Harvard, because MIT, which was his first choice, did not offer him a scholarship and Harvard did.

Anthony Oettinger was elected to Phi Beta Kappa as well as the chapter's First Marshall his junior year.

Anthony Oettinger joined the Harvard faculty two years later first as an instructor, then an assistant professor, associate professor, and then as a full professor in linguistics and in applied mathematics.

Anthony Oettinger capsulized the challenges of machine translation with an example of syntactic ambiguity "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana".

Anthony Oettinger is a pioneer in the early development of computer code and artificial intelligence and wrote the first AI programs to incorporate learning.

Considerably influenced by Alan Turing's views on machine learning, Anthony Oettinger believed that the shopping program, which simulated the behavior of a small child sent to the store, could pass a version of the Turing test.

Anthony Oettinger served as its chairman until it ceased operations in 2011.

Anthony Oettinger has served in multiple capacities for the federal and state government.

Anthony Oettinger served on the Research Advisory Board of the Committee for Economic Development.

Anthony Oettinger was appointed by the White House as a consultant to the National Security Council from 1975 to 1981.

Anthony Oettinger founded the Computer Science and Engineering Board of the National Academy of Sciences and chaired it for six years starting in 1967.

From 1994 until 2010 Anthony Oettinger was chairman of the Board of Visitors of the US National Defense Intelligence College, having first joined that Board in 1986.

Anthony Oettinger was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Anthony Oettinger was presented with a commendation from President Gerald Ford for his service as a consultant to the National Security Council.