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 leading 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". Washington City Paper.
  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". 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. Development, PodBean. "Free Podcast Hosting - Starting a Podcast in 5 Minutes - Podbean". www.podbean.com.
  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. "Professor Loui's Home Page at Washington University in St. Louis". Retrieved February 23, 2012.
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