Nils John Nilsson was born on Feb. 6, 1933, in Saginaw, Mich., to Walter and Pauline (Glerum) Nilsson. When he was 11, the family moved to California, where his father was a salesman for an ...

Nils Nilsson Ph.D. ’58, emeritus Stanford computer science professor and pioneering artificial intelligence and robotics researcher, died at the age of 86 on Apr. 2 at his home in Medford, Oregon.