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Scott Fahlman (Scott Elliott Fahlman) was born on 21 March, 1948 in Medina, Ohio, U.S., is an American computer scientist (born 1948). Discover Scott Fahlman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

Popular As Scott Elliott Fahlman
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Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 21 March, 1948
Birthday 21 March
Birthplace Medina, Ohio, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1948

Scott Elliott Fahlman (born March 21, 1948) is an American computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute and Computer Science Department.

He is notable for early work on automated planning and scheduling in a blocks world, on semantic networks, on neural networks (especially the cascade correlation algorithm), on the programming languages Dylan, and Common Lisp (especially CMU Common Lisp), and he was one of the founders of Lucid Inc. During the period when it was standardized, he was recognized as "the leader of Common Lisp."

1967

Fahlman was not the first to suggest the concept of the emoticon – a similar concept for a marker appeared in an article of Reader's Digest in May 1967, although that idea was never put into practice.

1969

In an interview printed in The New York Times in 1969, Vladimir Nabokov noted: "I often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile – some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket."

Fahlman is credited with originating the first smiley emoticon, which he thought would help people on a message board at Carnegie Mellon to distinguish serious posts from jokes.

He proposed the use of and for this purpose, and the symbols caught on.

1973

He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he received a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) and Master of Science (M.S.) degree in electrical engineering and computer science in 1973, and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in artificial intelligence in 1977.

He has noted that his doctoral diploma says the degree was awarded for "original research as demonstrated by a thesis in the field of Artificial Intelligence" and suggested that it may be the first doctorate to use that term.

He is a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.

Fahlman acted as thesis advisor for Donald Cohen, David B. McDonald, David S. Touretzky, Skef, Justin Boyan, Michael Witbrock, and Alicia Tribble Sagae.

1982

The original message from which these symbols originated was posted on 19 September 1982.

1996

From May 1996 to July 2001, Fahlman directed the Justsystem Pittsburgh Research Center.

2002

The message was recovered by Jeff Baird on 10 September 2002 and read:

19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-) From: Scott E Fahlman

I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:

Read it sideways.

Actually, it is probably more economical to mark

things that are NOT jokes, given current trends.

For this, use

2006

From 2006 to 2015, Fahlman was engaged in developing a knowledge base named Scone, based in part on his thesis work on the NETL Semantic Network.

He also is credited with coining the use of the emoticon.

Fahlman was born in Medina, Ohio, the son of Lorna May (Dean) and John Emil Fahlman.