[2] He led Stanford's Knowledge Systems Laboratory from 1991 to 2006, and has held appointments at Berkeley, Carnegie-Mellon, Price Waterhouse Technology Centre, Xerox PARC, and SRI International.
Fikes was born in Mobile, Alabama, and lived most of his early life in San Antonio, Texas.
He graduated from Sam Houston High School (San Antonio, Texas) in 1960, received a B.A.
Before joining the faculty at Stanford University, he held positions at SRI International, Xerox PARC, IntelliCorp, and the Price Waterhouse Technology Center.
Fikes has also chaired, co-chaired, organized, or served on the program committee of numerous professional conferences and symposia.