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Scott Fahlman - 笑脸符之父

Scott Fahlman首次使用 :-) ASCII 符号表示笑脸，希望借此在消息中活跃气氛，如今，所有人都在即时消息，聊天以及电子邮件中使用这个符号。

1982年9月19日上午十一时四十四分，为了避免大家在BBS上的误解，卡内基-梅隆大学的教师法尔曼(Scott Fahlman)首次打出了微笑符号“:-)”。他最初创造把这个符号定义为发言者是在开玩笑，现在则被更多的用作表示发自内心的愉悦和会心一笑。对应的，他用“:-(”来表示发言者是严肃的；当然，这个符号很快被象形的赋予了“悲伤”的含义。更多的类似符号被其他人发明出来，并形象的赋予不同的含义：

:)（微笑简版）

:(（悲伤简版）

:p（吐舌头）

;-)（眨眼微笑）

:D（张嘴大笑）

:=)（更大的鼻子）

8-)（戴眼镜的）

#:-)（头发乱蓬蓬的）

^_^

^o^

^_~

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Scott Elliott Fahlman (born March 21, 1948, in Medina, Ohio, U.S.) is a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. He is notable for early work on automated planning in a blocks world, on semantic networks, on neural networks (and, in particular, the cascade correlation algorithm), on the Dylan programming language and on Common Lisp (in particular CMU Common Lisp). Recently, Fahlman has been engaged in constructing a Knowledge Base, "Scone" based in part on his thesis work on the NETL Semantic Network.

Fahlman is credited with originating the first smiley emoticon, which he thought would help people on a message board at Carnegie Mellon to distinguish serious posts from jokes. He proposed the use of :-) and :-( for this purpose, and the symbols caught on. The original message from which these symbols originated was posted on September 19, 1982. The message was recovered by Jeff Baird on September 10, 2002 and is quoted below:

19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-)

From: Scott E Fahlman <Fahlman at Cmu-20c>

I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: :-)

Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use :-(

Though credited with originating the smiley emoticons, he was not the first emoticon user; a similar marker appeared in an article of Reader's Digest in May 1967.[5] In an interview printed in the New York Times in 1969, Vladimir Nabokov noted, "I often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile--some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket".

Fahlman received his bachelor's degree and master's degree in 1973 from MIT, and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1977. His thesis advisors were Drs Gerald Sussman and Patrick Winston. He is a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.

Fahlman acted as the thesis advisor for Donald Cohen, David B. McDonald, David S. Touretzky, Skef Wholey, Justin Boyan, Michael Witbrock, and Alicia Tribble Sagae.

From May 1996 to July 2000, Fahlman directed Justsystem Pittsburgh Research Center.

Smiley Award

He and his colleagues, in the fall of 2007, created a student contest, a student award to foster innovation in technology-assisted person-person communication.