Dr. Minton is an internationally recognized leader in Artificial Intelligence. After receiving his B.A. from Yale and his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon he began his career as a Principal Investigator at NASA's Ames Research Center. Steve later joined the faculty at the University of Southern California, where, together with Craig Knoblock and Yigal Arens, he led the research efforts that were eventually spun off to create Fetch Technologies. In addition to his work as a project leader and faculty member at USC, Steve founded the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), one of the leading Computer Science journals, and served as its first Executive Editor. He has received numerous awards for his work in artificial intelligence, and was elected to be a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 1998. |