Ken Forbus
Ken Forbus is Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Education at Northwestern University. He has a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from MIT, as well as an M.S. Computer Science and B.S. Computer Science, both also from MIT. He is notable for his work in qualitative process theory, automated sketch understanding and on automated analogical reasoning. He developed the structure mapping engine based on the structure-mapping theory of Dedre Gentner. He is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the Cognitive Science Society.