Catherine Havasi

Catherine Havasi (born 1981 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American scientist who specialises in artificial intelligence (AI) at MIT Media Lab. She is co-founder and CEO of AI company Luminoso. Havasi co-created MIT’s Open Mind Common Sense (also known as OMCS) AI project and led the MIT team that created the natural language AI programme ConceptNet. Fast Company included her in its "100 Most Creative People in Business 2015" listing. 2Early life and education Catherine Havasi grew up in Pittsburgh and became interested in artificial intelligence and how the brain works from an early age after reading Marvin Minsky's 1986 book The Society of Mind. Havasi attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied under Minsky. She became involved in the MIT Media Lab while still an undergraduate. She received a Ph.D in computer science from Brandeis University. 2Career In 1999, Havasi became involved in Open Mind Common Sense as cofounder with Marvin Minsky and Push Singh, also serving as its director. Havasi then led a team at MIT Media Lab to create ConceptNet, an open-source semantic network based on the information in the OMCS databas