Ronald J. Brachman

Ronald Jay "Ron" Brachman
Born	1949
Education	B.S. Electrical Engineering, Princeton University; M.S., Ph.D., Harvard University
Occupation(s)	Artificial intelligence researcher, academic
Known for	Foundational work in description logic; leadership at Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute and Yahoo! Labs

Ronald Jay "Ron" Brachman (born 1949) currently leads the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech as its director. His prior roles include serving as Chief Scientist at Yahoo! and managing the global research divisions as head of Yahoo! Labs (presently known as Yahoo! Research).

Education

Brachman obtained his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University, followed by a Master of Science and a Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Career

Prior to his tenure at Yahoo!, Brachman directed the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) within DARPA, where he played a key role in advancing research on Cognitive Systems. He also led the Artificial Intelligence Principles Research Department at AT&T's Bell Laboratories and oversaw the Software and Systems Research Laboratory. After AT&T's division with Lucent in 1996, he was appointed Vice President of Communications Services Research and was instrumental in establishing AT&T Labs.

Recognized as a foundational figure in description logic, which underpins the Web Ontology Language (OWL), Brachman was honored as a Fellow by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 1990.

Publications

Together with Hector Levesque, he co-wrote an influential book on knowledge representation and reasoning, alongside numerous academic articles that have made substantial contributions to artificial intelligence research.

External links

• External biography