Artifact Details

Title

Hart, Peter oral history

Catalog Number

102740340

Type

Moving image

Description

In this two-part oral history interview, artificial intelligence pioneer Peter Hart discusses his life and career. In Part 1, Hart discusses his family background and youth in New York City, his undergraduate studies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and his graduate studies at Stanford University. He details his engagement with artificial intelligence at the Stanford Research Institute, and in particular his part in the story of the robot Shakey and the A* (A-Star) algorithm. In Part 2, Hart continues his recollections of artificial intelligence work at the Stanford Research Institute, his engagement with the emerging field of expert systems and Bayesian reasoning, his creation of the expert system PROSPECTOR, and his part in the story of the Machine Intelligence Corporation. He details his creation of an artificial intelligence laboratory for Schlumberger and the expert system firm Syntelligence. The interview concludes with Hart detailing his work with Ricoh, from re-starting its Palo Alto R&D laboratory to international corporate roles.

Date

2018-05-16

Participants

Brock, David C., Interviewer
Hart, Peter, Interviewee

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Mountain View, CA, USA

Duration

02:08:29

Format

MOV

Category

Oral history

Collection Title

CHM Oral History Collection

Credit

Computer History Museum

Lot Number

X8637.2018