Gerald Jay Sussman

Gerald Jay Sussman is professor of Electrical Engineering (Electronic engineering) with the Massachusetts Institute off Technology (MIT).

It received a Bachelor off Science in 1968 and a doctorate (Ph.D.) in Mathématiques in 1973.

It is implied in research in artificial intelligence since 1964. Its research concentrated on the comprehension of the strategies of solution to problem used by the scientists and the engineers, with an aim of automating part of the process, of formalizing it, in order to provide more effective methods of teaching in the field of science and engineering. Sussman also worked in the field of the computer programming languages, the architecture of the computers and in the design of integrated circuits VLSI.

Sussman is the joint author (with Hal Abelson and Julie Sussman) of the text of introduction to the data processing of MIT. This book, Structure and Interpretation off Computer Programs , was translated into French, in German, Polish, Chinese and Japanese. For its contribution to teaching in the field of computer science, Sussman receives in 1990 the Karl Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award and the Amar G. Bump award for teaching in 1991.

Sussman and its former student Guy L. Steele Jr. invent the computer programming language Scheme in 1974.

It understood very quickly that the ideas resulting from the artificial intelligence could be applied to the field of the computer-aided design.

It developed with its students of the sophisticated tools of computer-aided design for the circuits VLSI.

Steele manufactured the first chip Scheme between 1979 and 1981. The techniques and the gained experience were used with the design as computers specialized in certain tasks.

Sussman was the principal originator of the " DIGITAL Orrery" (electronic planetarium), a machine conceived to make integral calculus of utmost precision in the field of the simulation of the celestial mechanics.

The machine was thought and built in a few months by an small group of people, by using simulations and tools for compilation based on the artificial intelligence.

Using the " DIGITAL Orrery" , Sussman worked with Jack Wisdom in the search of numerical traces of the chaotic movement of the planêtes located beyond the belt of asteroids (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluton).

The " DIGITAL Orrery" is now preserved at Smithsonian Institution at Washington DC.

It supervised égalemnt the design of the " Suprcomputer Toolkit" , another computer multiprocessor, optimized to make evolve/move systems of ordinary differential equation.

The " Supercomputer Toolkit" was used by Sussman and Wisdom to confirm and extend the discoveries made by the " DIGITAL Orrey" with the whole of the solar system.

Sussman is a member of Institute off Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), National Academy off Engineering' (NAE), of American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), of American Association for the Advancement off Science (AAAS), of the New York Academy off Sciences (NYAS), and American Academy of Science.

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