Neil Jacobstein
Neil Jacobstein
Neil Jacobstein Co-chairs the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Track at Singularity University on the NASA Research Park campus in Mountain View, California.
Career
Currently, Neil Jacobstein is a Chairman of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Track at Singularity University.
Prior to that, he was a President of Singularity University.
Now Neil is a Distinguished visiting professor in the Stanford University Media X Program, where he deals with augmented decision systems.
Previously, he chaired AAAI's 17th Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference and since then he continues to review technical papers for IAAI.
Prior to that, he served as a CEO of Teknowledge Corporation, a pioneering AI company, where he worked on AI applications system for industry and government.
In addition, he worked as a graduate research intern in Alan Kay's Learning Research Group at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, and was a consultant in PARC's Software Concepts Group.
Neil Jacobstein is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.
He has moderated Aspen Institute Socrates Programs on the technical and ethical implications of advanced technologies, and he coaches Socrates moderators.
He is the primary author of the Foresight Guidelines for the responsible development of Nanotechnology.
Publications
- James Bellingham, Howie Choset, Paolo Dario, Peer Fischer, Toshio Fukuda, Neil Jacobstein, Bradley J. Nelson, Manuela M. Veloso, Jeremy Berg: Science for robotics and robotics for science.
Science Robotics 1 (1) (2016)
- Neil Jacobstein: Often, It's not About the AI.
AI Magazine 29(2): 54-56 (2008)
- Neil Jacobstein, Bruce W. Porter: Guest Editors' Introduction.
AI Magazine 27(3): 13-14 (2006)
- Randall W. Hill Jr., Neil Jacobstein: Special Issue on Innovative Applications of AI: Guest Editor's Introduction.
AI Magazine 26(3): 17-18 (2005)
- Frederick Hayes-Roth, Neil Jacobstein: The State of Knowledge-Based Systems.
Commun.
ACM 37(3): 27-39 (1994)
- Dorothy Deringer, David H. Brandin, Dexter Fletcher, Neil Jacobstein: The Report of the ACM Longe-Range Planning Committee: A Summary.
Commun.
ACM 29(11): 1061-1071 (1986)
Education
Neil holds a B.S.
degree in Environmental Sciences, Summa cum laude, from the University Of Wisconsin, and a M.S.
degree in Human ecology from the University of Texas, under a USPHS scholarship with NASA's Environmental Physiology Simulation Program.
He also spent four years doing environmental research as a Research associate at the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems at Washington University and CUNY.