Robert Engelmore, a longtime Stanford University computer scientist and an authority on artificial intelligence, died Tuesday of an apparent heart attack. Acclaimed scientist dies
saving his grandson
from Kauai wavesAssociated Press
Engelmore, 68, of Menlo Park, was helping to rescue his 5-year-old grandson while swimming at Queen's Bath on Kauai during a family vacation when he apparently suffered the seizure.
Engelmore and his grandson, Jack, were swimming when they were overwhelmed by several large waves.
After helping lift the boy to safety, Engelmore was pulled out to sea. Lifeguards who reached him a few minutes later found that his heart had stopped.
Engelmore was for many years the executive director of the Heuristic Programming Project at Stanford's Computer Science Department.
He was also an editor of AI (Artificial Intelligence) magazine, the author of more than 25 scientific articles and an expert on medical and military applications of artificial intelligence.
The New York native received his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
He is survived by his wife, Ellie, and three daughters: Alice Engelmore, of Half Moon Bay, Calif.; Rebecca Lipski, of San Francisco; and Katherine Rose, of Hanalei, Kauai.