Austin Tate

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Austin Tate
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Born (1951-05-12) 12 May 1951 (age 74)
Alma mater Lancaster University (BSc)
University of Edinburgh (MSc, PhD)
Known for AI Planning
Artificial Intelligence
Virtual Worlds
SpouseMargaret 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.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/

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.

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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. [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

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

Selected publications

Honours and awards

Tate's awards and honours include:

Personal life

He was married in 1975 to Margaret (née Mowbray) at Knottingley, West Yorkshire, England. [4]

References

  1. 1 2 Austin Tate publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  2. ""University of Edinburgh Senatus 13 May 2020". www.ed.ac.uk. University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  3. "Austin Tate". aiai.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Tate, Prof. Austin Tate" . Who's Who . Vol. 2015. A & C Black. Retrieved 14 April 2019.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  5. Tate, Austin (9 March 1977). "Generating Project Networks". Ijcai'77. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc. pp. 888–893. Retrieved 9 March 2019 via ACM Digital Library.