Austin Tate
Austin Tate | |
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| Born | 12 May 1951 Knottingley, West Yorkshire, England |
| Alma mater | Lancaster University (BSc) University of Edinburgh (MSc, PhD) |
| Known for | AI Planning Artificial Intelligence Virtual Worlds |
| Spouse | Margaret Tate |
| Awards | AAAI Fellow (1993) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Artificial intelligence[1] |
| Institutions | University of Edinburgh |
| Thesis | Using Goal Structure to Direct Search in a Problem Solver (1975) |
| Doctoral advisor | Donald Michie |
| Doctoral students | Carla Gomes |
| Website | www |
Austin Tate is Emeritus Professor[2] of Knowledge-based systems in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.[3] From 1985 to 2019 he was Director of AIAI (Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute) in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.
He is known for his contributions to AI Planning, applications of Artificial Intelligence, and work on collaborative systems in Virtual Worlds.
Early life and education
[edit | edit source]Tate was born 12 May 1951, Knottingley, West Yorkshire, UK.[4] He completed his B.A. (Hons) Computer Studies, Lancaster University, 1969-1972.[4] He completed his postgraduate study in Machine Intelligence at University of Edinburgh, supervised by Donald Michie, 1972-1975 and a Master of Science degree in e-Learning at the University of Edinburgh, 2011-2012.[4]
Research and career
[edit | edit source]Tate's research interests are in Artificial intelligence.[1]
Selected publications
[edit | edit source]- Tate, A. (1977) Generating Project Networks, Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-77), pp. 888–893, Cambridge, MA, USA, Morgan Kaufmann.[5]
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- Tate, A., Levine, J., Dalton, J. and Nixon, A. (2003) Task Achieving Agents on the World Wide Web, in "Spinning the Semantic Web" (Fensel, D., Hendler, J., Liebermann, H. and Wahlster, W.), Chapter 15, pp. 431–458, MIT Press, 2003.
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- Other Publications: O-Plan Papers, I-X Papers
Honours and awards
[edit | edit source]Tate's awards and honours include:
- 1993 – Elected AAAI Fellow
- 1998 – Fellow of the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC)
- 1999 – Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE)
- 1999 – Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI)
- 2000 – Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS)
- 2006 – Fellow of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (SSAISB)
- 2012 – Elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng)
Personal life
[edit | edit source]He was married in 1975 to Margaret (née Mowbray) at Knottingley, West Yorkshire, England.[4]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Research: AIAI Planning and Activity Management Group website
- AI Planners: Traverser, Interplan, Nonlin, O-Plan, I-X/I-Plan
- Example Projects: AKT (Advanced Knowledge Technologies), CoAX (Coalition Agents eXperiment), FireGrid, OpenKnowledge, I-Room, OpenVCE
- Virtual World Avatar: Ai Austin's website
- Interests: Austin Tate's Gerry Anderson Web Area, Supercar, Fireball XL5
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- 1951 births
- People from Knottingley
- Living people
- Artificial intelligence researchers
- Alumni of Lancaster University
- Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
- Academics of the University of Edinburgh
- Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- British computer scientists
- Fellows of the British Computer Society
- Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
- Fellows of the SSAISB
- Fellows of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence