Background
Jolly, Purshotam Lal was born on March 7, 1949 in Baroundi, Punjab, India. Son of Krishnan Dev and Shakuntla (Devi) Jolly.
Jolly, Purshotam Lal was born on March 7, 1949 in Baroundi, Punjab, India. Son of Krishnan Dev and Shakuntla (Devi) Jolly.
Bachelor of Science with honors, Punjab University, 1969. Master of Science in Mathematics, Punjab University, 1972. Master of Science in Computer Science, Kurukshetra (India) University, 1973.
Doctor of Philosophy in Operations Research, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 1980.
Research instructor, Indian Institute Technology Kanpur, 1977-1980; assistant professor computer science and mathematics, State University of New York, Binghamton, 1981-1982; associate professor computer science, California Polytechnic State University, Pomona, 1982-1985; member research technical staff, Northrop Research and Technology Center, Palos Verdes, California, 1985-1988; consultant, Joint Venture Abacus Programming Corporation/Rockwell International, Van Nuys and Downey, California, 1984; consultant, Odetics, Inc., Anaheim, California, 1988. Instructor artificial intelligence University of California at Los Angeles, since 1989. President, consultant PJ Intelligent Systems, Burbank, California, since 1990.
Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Operations Research Society of America, Association for Computing Machinery, American Association Artificial Intelligence.
Married Nirmal Jolly. Children: Poonam, Kiran.