Ronald Loui

Ronald Prescott Loui is an American computer scientist and philosopher identified as "Frederick" in U.S. President Barack Obama's Dreams From My Father memoir, the first classmate the ten-year-old Obama meets at Punahou School.[1][2][3] Loui appears in Obama biographies, national and international newspaper articles,[4][5][6] in online columns, in a film documentary,[7] on NPR and on Fox TV news.[8] In cartoon form, he appears as Obama's childhood sidekick in the comic biography by Jeff Mariotte. Loui is the first friend named and quoted by Obama in his memoir. In a radio interview, Loui explained that his brother Terrence was really the first person who welcomed Obama and his grandfather to Punahou (so the character in the memoir is a composite of two people).[9]

Biography

Loui was a leading advocate of defeasible reasoning in artificial intelligence (see also argument and argumentation theory) and a proponent of scripting languages.

He was co-patentor of a deep packet inspection hardware device that could read and edit the contents of packets as they stream through a network.[10] This was a key technology sought by the DARPA Information Awareness Office and Disruptive Technology Office under Total Information Awareness. Loui also consulted on Cyc, a famous Artificial Intelligence program devised by Doug Lenat.

Loui organized the first Harvard internet alumni club and built a citation-based search engine (for legal opinions) in the early 1990s.[11]

He earned his Ph.D. under Henry E. Kyburg, and spent postdoctoral time at Stanford under Patrick Suppes and Amos Tversky.[11]

Professor Loui supervised students in a National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates program that produced several current professors of computing, and the author of the original Google search engine.

References

  1. ↑ Yes We Can: A biography of President Barack Obama by Garen Thomas
  2. ↑ Telling Tales From President Obama's High School Days
  3. ↑ “I Know Obama” Anecdote #3
  4. ↑ Matt Roper. "Barack Obama exclusive: Where are his school classmates now?". mirror.co.uk. Retrieved March 16, 2011.
  5. ↑ Cardwell, Jewell (December 12, 2008). "Ohio.com – Cardwell: Schoolmates in N.E. Ohio recall Obama as class act". Google.com. Retrieved March 16, 2011.
  6. ↑ "Barry Obama e la classe del '72 – Corriere della Sera". Corriere.it. Retrieved March 16, 2011.
  7. ↑ Gloria Borland trailer for Obama: Made in Hawaii, see youtube.com
  8. ↑ 10/5/2007 Betsey Bruce interview.
  9. ↑ http://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail?pid=54596
  10. ↑ "Methods, systems, and devices using reprogrammable hardware for high-speed processing of streaming data to find a redefinable pattern and respond thereto – US Patent 7093023 Abstract". Patentstorm.us. Archived from the original on June 12, 2011. Retrieved March 16, 2011.
  11. 1 2 "Professor Loui's Home Page at Washington University in St. Louis". Retrieved February 23, 2012.
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