Education
Fikes received his Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1968.
Fikes received his Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1968.
He is professionally active as a consultant and expert witness. He led Stanford"s Knowledge Systems Laboratory from 1991 to 2006, and has held appointments at Berkeley, Carnegie-Mellon, Price Waterhouse Technology Centre, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, and Socially Responsible Investment International. Fikes" research activities have primarily been in developing techniques for effectively representing and using knowledge in computer systems—a sub-field of Artificial Intelligence generally known as KR&R, for knowledge representation and reasoning.
He was a co-developer of the STRIPS automatic planning system, Knowledge Interchange Format language for interchange of logical knowledge bases, the Ontolingua ontology engineering environment, and IntelliCorp"s Knowledge Engineering Environment (KEE).
He also worked on the Shakey the Robot project at Socially Responsible Investment International.