Austin Tate
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| Institutions | University of Edinburgh |
| Alma mater | Lancaster University, University of Edinburgh |
| Thesis | Using Goal Structure to Direct Search in a Problem Solver (1975) |
| Doctoral advisor | Donald Michie |
| Known for | AI Planning, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Worlds |
Austin Tate FREng FRSE FBCS FAAAI is Director of AIAI (Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute) in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.[1] He holds the Chair in Knowledge-based systems 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.
Biographical Information
- Born 12 May 1951, Knottingley, West Yorkshire, UK
- Married 14 July 1975 to Margaret (née Mowbray) at Knottingley, West Yorkshire, UK
- B.A. (Hons) Computer Studies, Lancaster University, 1969-1972
- PhD in Machine Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, supervised by Donald Michie, 1972-1975
- MSc in e-Learning, University of Edinburgh, 2011-2012
Honours
- 1993 – Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (was American Association for Artificial Intelligence)
- 1998 – Fellow of the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC)
- 1999 – Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE)
- 1999 – Fellow of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI)
- 2000 – Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS)
- 2006 – Fellow of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (SSAISB)
- 2012 – Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng)
Selected publications
- 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. [1]
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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
References
- ↑ http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/ Austin Tate's website
External links
- 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
Categories:
- 1951 births
- People from Knottingley
- Living people
- Artificial intelligence researchers
- Alumni of Lancaster University
- 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
