12 Facts About Gerald Sussman

Gerald Sussman has been involved in artificial intelligence research at MIT since 1964.

Gerald Sussman's research has centered on understanding the problem-solving strategies used by scientists and engineers, with the goals of automating parts of the process and formalizing it to provide more effective methods of science and engineering education.

Gerald Sussman has worked in computer languages, in computer architecture and in Very Large Scale Integration design.

Gerald Sussman is a coauthor of the introductory computer science textbook Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.

Gerald Sussman saw that artificial intelligence ideas can be applied to computer-aided design .

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Gerald Sussman developed, with his graduate students, sophisticated computer-aided design tools for Very Large Scale Integration .

Gerald Sussman was the principal designer of the Digital Orrery, a machine designed to do high-precision integrations for orbital mechanics experiments.

Gerald Sussman was the lead designer of the Supercomputer Toolkit, another multiprocessor computer optimized for evolving of ordinary differential equations.

Gerald Sussman has pioneered the use of computational descriptions to communicate methodological ideas in teaching subjects in Electrical Circuits and in Signals and Systems.

Gerald Sussman's work is presented in many videos, such as: with Hal Abelson in a full 20 lecture version of MIT's SICP course, for LispNYC, at the International Conference on Complex Systems, for ArsDigita University, and giving the keynote talk at a Strange Loop conference.

Gerald Sussman is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Gerald Sussman is a bonded locksmith, a life member of the American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute, a member of the Massachusetts Watchmakers-Clockmakers Association, a member of the Amateur Telescope Makers of Boston, and a member of the American Radio Relay League .