Elaine Kant

Elaine Kant is an American computer scientist known for her work in artificial intelligence, program synthesis, and computational finance.

Education and career

Kant earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University.[1][2] Her 1979 doctoral dissertation was Efficiency Considerations in Program Synthesis: A Knowledge-Based Approach.[1][3]

Kant was a computer science faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University in the early 1980s.[4] As a researcher for Schlumberger in the 1980s and 1990s, she developed SciNapse, a tool for transforming mathematical models in hydrocarbon exploration into computer code. She later founded SciComp, which developed a system for automatic programming in computational finance.[5]

She is president and CEO of SciComp,[1][2] chief scientist of Querium,[1][6] and head of research for StepWise, an online secondary-school mathematics tutoring system developed by Querium.[7]

Recognition

As a doctoral student, Kant received a Hertz Fellowship in 1976.[1] She was named a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 1991,[8] and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1997.[1]

Books

Kant is the author of Efficiency in Program Synthesis (1981).[9] She is a coauthor of the 1985 book Programming Expert Systems in OPS5: An Introduction to Rule-Based Programming, on OPS5, a rule-based language.[10]

References
  1. Elaine Kant, PhD, 1976 Hertz Fellow, Hertz Foundation, retrieved 2024-06-21
  2. Management team, SciComp, retrieved 2024-06-21
  3. Kant, E. (1979), Efficiency Considerations in Program Synthesis: A Knowledge-Based Approach, Stanford University
  4. Author biography from A commercial program synthesis system for computational finance (PDF) (Invited talk abstract), AAAI, 2002, retrieved 2024-06-21
  5. Smith, Reid G.; Schoen, Eric J.; Tenenbaum, Jay M. (January 2022), "Early AI applications at Schlumberger" (PDF), IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, 44 (1), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): 88–102, doi:10.1109/mahc.2022.3149469
  6. Elaine Kant, Querium, retrieved 2024-06-21
  7. "Research", StepWise, retrieved 2024-06-21
  8. Elected AAAI Fellows, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, retrieved 2024-06-21
  9. Efficiency in Program Synthesis, UMI Research Press, 1981.
  10. Programming Expert Systems in OPS5: An Introduction to Rule-Based Programming, Addison-Wesley, 1985, with Lee Brownston, Robert Farrell, and Nancy Martin.
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