August 27, 2001

Doyle Named SAS Institute Distinguished Professor of Computer Science

Dr. Doyle

Dr. Jon Doyle has been named SAS Institute Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University, effective August 16, 2001.  The $1 million chair was established through the generosity of SAS Institute Inc. of Cary, along with a matching grant from the Distinguished Professors Endowment Trust Fund maintained by the University of North Carolina Office of the President, to endow a distinguished professorship in data mining and data warehousing, important software methodologies for delivering and managing information for decision making by users.

Since 1988 Doyle has served as a research scientist in the Laboratory for Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), following earlier appointments at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon University.  From 1988 to 2001 he was also research assistant professor at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts.

His research interests concern the structure and interpretation of rational activity; the mathematical formalization and foundations of artificial intelligence; and archival computing, including data mining and data warehousing.  Doyle's research has been applied in computer and network security, medicine and military planning.

Doyle is a member and fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and director of Principles of Knowledge Representation and Research Inc.  He is on the editorial board of Computational Intelligence, consulting editor of the Journal of Logic, Language and Information and associate editor of AI Communications.  He is a member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

Doyle received his bachelor’s in mathematics from the University of Houston in 1974, his master’s in electrical engineering and computer science in 1977 from MIT and his doctorate in artificial intelligence in 1980 from MIT.

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