Doug Lenat

Doug Lenat is a computer scientist best known for creating Cyc, a pioneering artificial intelligence project aimed at building a comprehensive knowledge base of everyday human concepts and reasoning. His goal is to enable machines to understand and reason about the world more like humans do. Lenat’s work focuses on developing systems that can handle complex, real-world information by encoding common sense in a way that computers can process, helping improve AI's ability to assist with decision-making, understanding language, and problem-solving.