스콧 팰만

소개

스콧 엘리엇 팰만(영어: Scott Elliott Fahlman, 1948년 3월 21일 ~ )은 미국의 카네기 멜론 대학교의 전산학자이다. 최초로 이모티콘을 제안한 것으로 알려져 있다.

Scott Elliott Fahlman is an American computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute and Computer Science Department. He is notable for early work on automated planning and scheduling in a blocks world, on semantic networks, on neural networks, on the programming languages Dylan, and Common Lisp, and he was one of the founders of Lucid Inc. During the period when it was standardized, he was recognized as "the leader of Common Lisp." From 2006 to 2015, Fahlman was engaged in developing a knowledge base named Scone, based in part on his thesis work on the NETL Semantic Network. He also is credited with coining the use of the emoticon.