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Ronald Prescott Loui is an American computer scientist and adjunct professor of computer science at Case Western Reserve University. He previously taught at Washington University in St. Louis and University of Illinois Springfield.
He was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University in 1987–1988, working there with Patrick Suppes and Amos Tversky, among others. From 1988 to 2008, he was a professor of computer science at Washington University in St. Louis in the McKelvey School of Engineering. He was also associated with multiple departments outside of engineering.
After leaving Washington University in 2008, he worked as a full-time consultant for several years. He co-founded the disinformation-detection startup Peak Metrics after several years doing similar research for US intelligence and defense, and now teaches as an adjunct faculty member at Case Western Reserve University.
Loui has published papers on defeasible reasoning in artificial intelligence and he is a proponent of scripting languages."In Praise of Scripting," IEEE COMPUTER, 2008. He is co-patent holder of a deep packet inspection hardware device that could read and edit the contents of packets as they stream through a network. This technology was sought by the DARPA Information Awareness Office and Disruptive Technology Office under Total Information Awareness. Loui also consulted for Cyc, a well-known artificial intelligence program created by Douglas Lenat.
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