Biography:Austin Tate

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Austin Tate

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Born (1951-05-12) 12 May 1951 (age 73)
Knottingley, West Yorkshire, England
Alma materLancaster University (BSc)
University of Edinburgh (MSc, PhD)
Known forAI Planning
Artificial Intelligence
Virtual Worlds
Spouse(s)Margaret Tate
AwardsAAAI Fellow (1993)
Scientific career
FieldsArtificial intelligence[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh
ThesisUsing Goal Structure to Direct Search in a Problem Solver (1975)
Doctoral advisorDonald Michie
Doctoral studentsCarla Gomes
Websitewww.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/

Austin Tate FREng FRSE[2][3] is Emeritus Professor[4] of Knowledge-based systems in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.[5] 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

Tate was born 12 May 1951, Knottingley, West Yorkshire, UK.[6] He completed his B.A. (Hons) Computer Studies, Lancaster University, 1969-1972.[6] 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.[6]

Research and career

Tate's research interests are in Artificial intelligence.[1]

Selected publications

Honours and awards

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

He was married in 1975 to Margaret (née Mowbray) at Knottingley, West Yorkshire, England.[6]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 {{Google Scholar id}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
  2. "List of RAEng Fellows". Royal Academy of Engineering. http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows. 
  3. "List of RSE Fellows". Royal Society of Edinburgh. 21 June 2016. https://www.rse.org.uk/fellows/. 
  4. ""University of Edinburgh Senatus 13 May 2020". University of Edinburgh. https://www.ed.ac.uk/academic-services/committees/senate/agendas-papers. 
  5. "Austin Tate". http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/. 
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 ",". Who's Who. 2015. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. https://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U257667.  (subscription or UK public library membership required)
  7. Tate, Austin (9 March 1977). "Generating Project Networks". Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc.. pp. 888–893. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1622943.1623021. 

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