Frederick B. Thompson
Professor of Computer Science Emeritus
California Institute of Technology
| 6 months | High School Grad | Menopause | Retired |
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Frederick Burtis Thompson
Born: July 26, 1922 in Defiance, Ohio
Education:
A.B., Mathematics, University of California at Los Angeles, 1946
M.S., Mathematics, University of California at Los Angeles, 1947
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley, 1951
Employment:
United States Army -- 1942-43
Douglas Aircraft Company -- 1943-45
University of California -- 1946-51
The RAND Corporation -- 1951-56
General Analysis Corporation -- 1956-57
General Electric Company -- 1957-65
California Institute of Technology -- 1965-93
Selected Publications:
"A Note on the Unique Factorization of Abstract Algebras," Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 55, December 1949.
"Equivalence of Games in Extensive Form," Research Memorandum-759, The RAND Corporation, January 1952. Since republished in Classics in Game Theory, edited by H. W. Kuhn, Princeton University Press, 1997.
"HIK-1 Simulation Program," General Electric Co., Manufacturing Services, May 1960.
"Concept for the Navy Operational Control Complex of the Future," TM62 TMP-49, General Electric Co. Technical Military Planning Operation, January, 1962.
"Fundamentals Underlying Military Information System Design," Military Information Systems, edited by E. Bennet et al., Praeger, 1964.
"Man-Machine Communication," Seminar on Computational Linguistics, National Institutes of Health, 1866.
"The Organization is the Information," Journal of American Documentation, Vol. 19, July 1968.
"A Rapidly Extensible Language System, the REL Language Processor (with P. Lockemann), REL English (with B. Dostert)," Proceedings International Conference on Computational Linguistics, 1969
"The Dynamics of Information." The Key Reporter, Vol. 38, 1972, Phi Beta Kappa. Reprinted in Engineering and Science, California Institute of Technology, October 1972.
"Practical Natural Language Processing - The REL System as Prototype," (with Bozena Thompson) Advances in Computers, Vol. 13, Academic Press, 1974.
"Introducing ASK, a Simple Knowledgeable System," (with Bozena Thompson), Proceedings Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, Santa Monica, 1983.
"Customising One's Own Interface Using English as Primary Language," (with Bozena Thompson), Proceedings South East Asia Regional Computer Conference, Hong Kong, 1984.
"Applications of Natural Language Systems," (with Bozena Thompson) Tutorial Program, 11th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Bonn, 1986
"New World of Computing," (with Bozena Thompson), Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on the Frontiers of Science and Technology, United Nations University, Kyoto, Japan May 1992
Doctors of Philosophy
Dr. David Bernard Benson
1968 -- "Formal Languages, Part Theory and Change"
Dr. David Lawrence Randall
1970 -- "Formal Methods in the Foundations of Science"
Dr. Norton Robert Greenfeld
1972 -- "Computer System Support For Data Analysis"
Dr. Richard Henry Bigelow
1973 -- "Computer Languages for Numerical Engineering Problems"
Dr. Pericles Nicolaides
1975 -- "RELSIM - An On-Line Language For Discrete Simulation in Social Sciences"
Dr. Stephen Vaughn Petersen
1979 -- "CARTAM: The Cartesian Access Method For Data Structures with n-dimensional Keys"
Dr. Peter Szolovits
1975 -- "The REL Language Writer's Language: A Metalanguage for Implementing Specialized Application Languages"
Dr. Gideon Hess
1980 -- "A Software Design System"
Dr. Kwang-I Yu
1981 -- "Communicative Databases"
Dr. David James Trawick
1983 -- "Robust Sentence Analysis and Habitability"
Dr. Phillip Neches
1983 -- "Hardware Support for Advanced Data Management Systems"
Dr. Alexandros Chrisrou Papachristidis
1984 -- "Heterogeneous Data Base Access"
Dr. Tai-Ping Ho
1984 -- "The Dialodue Designing Dialogue System"
Dr. Remy D. Sanouillet
1993 -- "Computer Mediated Communication"
Masters of Science
Mr. Hean Lee Poh
1987 -- "Time and Tense in ASK"
Dr. Kelly Roach
1988 -- "Pronouns"
Ms. Cathy C. Marshall'
1988 -- "An Analysis of Fragments in Human Dialogue"
Dr. Seth B. Noble