Background
Hodes, Louis was born on June 19, 1934 in Brooklyn. Son of Morris and Anna (Magid) Hodes.
Hodes, Louis was born on June 19, 1934 in Brooklyn. Son of Morris and Anna (Magid) Hodes.
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering, Brooklyn Polytechnical Institute, 1956; Master of Science in Applied Mathematics, Brooklyn Polytechnical Institute, 1958; Doctor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1962.
With John McCarthy, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he helped produce the earliest implementations of LISP, and under Marvin Minsky he did early research on visual pattern recognition in LISP. He is also credited by some with the idea, and an initial implementation, of logic programming. In 1966 he moved into cancer-related research, specifically at National Institutes of Health and later the National Cancer Institute where he turned his interest in visual pattern recognition to medical imaging applications. He also worked on efficient algorithms for screening chemical compounds for studying chemical carcinogenesis.
His work on models of clustering for chemical compounds was pronounced a "milestone" by the Developmental Therapeutics Program of the National Cancer Institute, for "revolutioniz the selection of compounds of interest by measuring the novelty of a chemical structure by comparing it to known compounds.".
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, American Chemical Society, Association Computing Machinery, Society Industrial andApplied Mathematics.
Married Susan Barbara Levine, November 23, 1967.