Max Lerner

Honoring Aaron Lerner

We are here today to celebrate a unique and distinguished man, Aaron B. Lerner. I have the privilege of opening these festivities by telling you something of Aaron, realizing full well that many of you know more about certain aspects of his life than I do, but relishing, nonetheless, this particular prerequisite of my position as dean. Aaron was born in 1920 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was th...

Alexander Lerner: A Biographical Sketch

A special session entitled “Future Directions In Artificial Intelligence” was held at the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Washington, D.C. in August. The session, chaired by Jack Minker, was held to honor Soviet cyberneticist Alexander Yankelovich Lerner’s seventieth birthday. Minker described Dr. Lerner’s contributions to science. Participants Saul Amarel, Nils Nilsson, John ...

Aaron B. Lerner, 1920-2007.

Lerner, called “The Bunsen Burner” by his high school classmates, was a scientist’s scientist. Born in 1921, he later took Bunsen as his middle name. He earned his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota, both in 1945. In 1952, he moved to Oregon with his friend and colleague Thomas B. Fitzpatrick, who was the newly appointed head of the University of Oregon Medical School’s Div...

and Josh Lerner : Innovation and Its Discontents

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The Aaron B. Lerner Symposium. June 22, 1985.