Gerald Jay Sussman (February 8, 1947) is the Panasonic Professor of
Electrical Engineering at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He received his
S.B. and
Ph.D. degrees in
mathematics from MIT in 1968 and 1973 respectively. He has been involved in
artificial intelligence research at MIT since 1964. His research has centered on understanding the problem-solving strategies used by scientists and engineers, with the goals of automating parts of the process and formalizing it to provide more effective methods of science and engineering education. Sussman has also worked in computer languages, in computer architecture and in
VLSI design.