Thomas Dean (computer scientist)

Thomas L. Dean (born 1950) is an American computer scientist known for his work in robot planning, probabilistic graphical models, and computational neuroscience. He was one of the first to introduce ideas from operations research and control theory to artificial intelligence.[3] In particular, he introduced the idea of the Anytime algorithm and was the first to apply the factored Markov decision process to robotics.[4][5]

Thomas L. Dean
Born1950 (age 70–71)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materVirginia Polytechnic Institute
Yale University
AwardsAAAI Fellow (1994)[1]
ACM Fellow (2009) [2]
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsGoogle
Stanford University
Brown University
ThesisTemporal Imagery: An Approach to Reasoning about Time for Planning and Problem Solving (1985)
Doctoral advisorDrew McDermott
Websitecs.brown.edu/people/tdean

He was a professor at Brown University from 1993 to 2007, holding roles including department chair, acting vice president for computing and information services, and deputy provost.[6] In 2006, he started working at Google, where he was instrumental in helping the Google Brain project get its start. He is currently an emeritus professor at Brown and a lecturer and research fellow at Stanford.[7]

He has authored several influential textbooks on artificial intelligence.[3][8][9]

He is a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.[1] and the Association for Computing Machinery.[2]

References
  1. "Elected AAAI Fellows". Aaai.org. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  2. "Recipients". Awards.acm.org. Retrieved 25 October 2021.
  3. Dean, Thomas; Wellman, Michael (1991). Planning and Control. Morgan Kaufmann.
  4. "Four Googlers elected ACM Fellows". 2009.
  5. Thomas Dean publications indexed by Google Scholar
  6. "Tom Dean academic biography". Cs.brown.edu.
  7. "Thomas L Dean, Stanford Bio". Esplorecourses.stanford.edu.
  8. Dean, Thomas; Allen, James; Aloimonos, Yiannis (1995). Artificial Intelligence: Theory and Practice. Addison-Wesley.
  9. Dean, Thomas (2004). Talking with Computers. Cambridge University Press.


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