title: Ken Forbus
text: # Ken Forbus
  
  Kenneth Dale "Ken" Forbus is an American computer scientist working as the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Education at Northwestern University.
  
  ## Education
  
  Forbus earned a Bachelor of Science in computer science, Master of Science in computer science, and PhD in artificial intelligence from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  
  ## Career
  
  Forbus is notable for his work in qualitative process theory, automated sketch understanding, and automated analogical reasoning. He also developed the structure mapping engine based on the structure-mapping theory of Dedre Gentner. He is a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the Cognitive Science Society.
  
  