Biography:Jon Oberlander
Jon Reid Oberlander FRSE (16 June 1962 – 19 December 2017) was Professor of Epistemics at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. He received a BA in Philosophy from Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1983 and a PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1987.[1][2]
Research
Oberlander described three main strands in his research:[3] intelligent labelling; affect in communication (e.g., in research on personality types in emails with Alastair Gill); and multimodal reasoning and communication (e.g., in research with Keith Stenning on diagrammatic reasoning).
Honours
In March 2016 Oberlander was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's National Academy for science and letters, where he served as a member of their Young People's committee.[4][5]
References
- ↑ Wade, Mike (21 December 2017). "Artificial intelligence pioneer Jon Oberlander dies at 55". The Times. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/artificial-intelligence-pioneer-jon-oberlander-dies-at-55-987q9326j.
- ↑ Quigley, Aaron (Spring 2018). "Obituary: Jon Oberlander". AI Matters (ACM) 4 (1): 23–24. doi:10.1145/3203247.3203253. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3203247.3203253. Retrieved 18 December 2018.
- ↑ See his web page.
- ↑ "Fellows - The Royal Society of Edinburgh". 2016-06-21. https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/1200_2016ElectedFellows.html.
- ↑ "Archived copy". https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/committees/current_committee_members_web.pdf.
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