Fanya Montalvo


Fanya S. Montalvo Received the Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1976. Her dissertation was entitled Aftereffects, Adaptation, and Plasticity: A Neural Model for Tunable Feature Space. She was advised by Michael Anthony Arbib. Montalvo has been a research scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Labs, HP, MIT, and Digital Equipment Corporation.
Montalvo is a leader in the field of currently serving on the governing Board of the . According to Rosalind Picard, she is involved in considerations within emotional computing. She is known for having coined the term "AI-complete" to denote an Artificial Intelligence task that is equivalent in difficulty to that of solving the problem of Strong AI.

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