Bair Alums


BAIR (=Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research) was a laboratory of the Computer Science Division of University of California at Berkeley, run by Professor Robert Wilensky from about 1978 to 1998. The name is now used to cover all AI research at Berkeley.


Anthony Albert, Check Point via Symantec, etc.

Rick Alterman, Brandeis University

Yigal Arens, USC Information Sciences Institute

Michael S. Braverman, Roche

Margaret Butler, via Sun Microsystems

David N. Chin, University of Hawaii, emeritus

Isaac K. Cheng, IBM

Charley Cox, via Franz Inc.

Michael Deering, via Sun Microsystems

Joe Faletti, Semantic AI, via ETS

Eric Karlson, Snowflake

Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley, via Xerox Parc

Paul Jacobs, Jake Technologies, via Primus, AnswerLogic, U. Penn, GE

Dan Jurafsky, Stanford University, via the University of Colorado, ICSI

Narciso Jaramillo, Adobe, via Macromedia

Marc Luria, via DirecTV, Technion

Tony Maida, University of Louisiana at Lafayette

James H. Martin, University of Colorado, Boulder

Jim Mayfield, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, via University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Peter Norvig, Google, via USC, Sun, Junglee, NASA Ames

David D. Palmer, via U. Washington, Mitre, HP

Lisa Rau, Fionta, via Confluence

Terry Regier, University of California at Berkeley Linguistics, via University of Chicago Psychology

Michael X. Schiff, Phile, via Ingenio

Nigel Ward, University of Texas at El Paso, via the University of Tokyo

Dekai Wu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Jamie Zawinski, via Netscape and Mozilla.org


updated     December 2020     Nigel Ward