Fikes, Richard E.

Richard Earl Fikes, Professor (Research) Emeritus in Stanford's Computer Science Department, earned his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Texas at Austin and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1968. Before joining the Stanford faculty, his posts included Senior Mathematician at SRI (Stanford Research Institute), 1969-1976, research staff at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, 1976 to 1983, and research scientist with Price Waterhouse Technology Centre. Fikes is best known as co-developer of the STRIPS (Stanford Research Institute Problem Solver) automatic planning system, KIF (Knowledge Interchange Format), the Ontolingua ontology representation language and Web-based ontology development environment, the OKBC (Open Knowledge Base Connectivity) API for knowledge servers, and IntelliCorp's KEE (Knowledge Engineering Environment) system.