Sussman named AAAS Fellow

November 8, 2004

Gerald Sussman is one of the six MIT faculty members recently awarded the distinction of Fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Gerald Jay Sussman, the Matsushita Professor of Electrical Engineering, was named a Fellow for "pioneering the design and implementation of the Digital Orrery, an artificial intelligence-based, special-purpose computer for astrophysics, which enabled discovery of chaotic motions in the outer solar system." This has been reported in the Nov. 3, 2004 MIT Tech Talk (Volume 49, Number 8).