Given the question: What key details about robert hecht-nielsen can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: robert hecht-nielsen -lrb- born 1947 -rrb- is an adjunct professor of electrical and computer engineering at the university of california , san diego . he co-founded hnc software , and became a vice president of r&d at fair isaac corporation when it acquired the company . in march , 2005 , he held an event to announce '' the fundamental mechanism of cognition '' , which he believes is a process of confabulation -lrb- neural networks -rrb- . he posits that all actions and thoughts begin as the '' winners '' of competitions , where confabulations are tested for cogency based on antecedent support . he presented some mathematical models of the proposed mechanism , and some experimental results where software using this system was able to add several words to a stub of a sentence , keeping that stub coherent and , optionally , maintaining some connection to a full input sentence supplied as context . for example , given '' but the other ... '' the program returns '' but the other semifinal match between fourth-seeded ... '' . given '' japan manufactures many consumer products . '' for context , and the same three-word stub , it returns '' but the other executives included well-known companies ... '' . five pages of such examples were given . he made red , green , and blue-striped medallions to commemorate the event , and had them distributed to the audience along with pamphlets explaining their significance : '' this new era , which as yet has no name , will be characterized by the eternal universal freedom from want provided by intelligent machines . ''
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- field is computer science- work institution is university of california , san diego- birth date is 1947- name is robert hecht-nielsen- birth place is san francisco