Biography
Sowa received a BS in mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962, an MA in applied mathematics from Harvard Universityin 1966, and a PhD in computer science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Sowa spent most of his professional career at IBM, which started in 1962 at IBM's applied mathematics group. Over the decades he has research and developed emerging fields of computer science from compiler, programming languages, and system architectureto artificial intelligence and knowledge representation. In the 1990s Sowa was associated with IBM Educational Center in New York. Over the years he taught courses at the IBM Systems Research Institute, Binghamton University, Stanford University, Linguistic Society of America and Université du Québec à Montréal. He is a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.
After early retired at IBM Sowa in 2001 cofounded VivoMind Intelligence, Inc.. With this company he is developing data-mining and database technology, more specific high-level "ontologies" for artificial intelligence and automated natural language understanding.
John Sowa is married to the philologist Cora Angier Sowa, and are living in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.
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