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Richard Fikes is a Professor (Research) in Computer Science, Emeritus at Stanford University. He has a long distinguished record as an innovative leader in the development of techniques for effectively representing knowledge in computer systems. Fikes is known as a co-developer of the STRIPS automatic planning system, KIF (Knowledge Interchange Format), and the Ontolingua ontology representation language. He has contributed to the development of the Web-based ontology development environment and the OKBC (Open Knowledge Base Connectivity) API for knowledge servers. Throughout his career at Stanford, he has led projects focused on developing large-scale distributed repositories of computer-interpretable knowledge, collaborative development of multi-use ontologies, and enabling technology for the Semantic Web, alongside reasoning methods applicable to large-scale knowledge bases. Fikes has been a principal investigator on major projects involving multiple Federal Government agencies, including the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Intelligence Community’s Advanced Research Development Activity (ARDA).
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