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Name
  
Woody Bledsoe

Role
  
Mathematician

Doctoral advisor
  
Anthony Morse


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Born
  
November 12, 1921 Maysville, Oklahoma (
1921-11-12
)

Thesis
  
Separative Measures for Topological Spaces (1953)

Doctoral students
  
Robert Anderson, Robert S. Boyer, Peter Bruell, Stephen Darden, Guohui Feng, Larry Hines, Dallas Lankford, Vesko Marinov, John Minor, Mark Moriconi, James Morris, Donald Simon, William Tyson, John Ulrich, Tie-Cheng Wang, Charles Wilks

Notable awards
  
IJCAI Distinguished Service Award 1991, AMS Milestone Award 1991

Spouse
  
Virginia (nee Norgaard)

Children
  
Margaret, Greg, Pam, Lance

Died
  
October 4, 1995, Austin, Texas, United States

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Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Bledsoe (November 12, 1921 – October 4, 1995) was a mathematician, computer scientist, and prominent educator. He is one of the founders of artificial intelligence, making early contributions in pattern recognition and automated theorem proving. He continued to make significant contributions to AI throughout his long career.

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Bledsoe joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as an adult, and served in the church as a Bishop, counselor to the Stake Presidency, and Stake Patriarch. He also served as a leader in the Boy Scouts of America. Bledsoe died on October 4, 1995 of ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

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Selected publications

  • W.W. Bledsoe (1977). "Non-Resolution Theorem Proving". Artificial Intelligence. 9: 1–35. doi:10.1016/0004-3702(77)90012-1. 
  • W.W. Bledsoe; I. Browning (1959). "Pattern Recognition and Reading by Machine". Papers Presented at the December 1-3, 1959, Eastern Joint IRE-AIEE-ACM Computer Conference. IRE-AIEE-ACM '59 (Eastern). ACM: 225–232. doi:10.1145/1460299.1460326. 
  • Woody Bledsoe (1986). "I Had a Dream: AAAI Presidential Address, 19 August 1985". AI Magazine. 7 (1): 57–61. 

    • References

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