Michael Luck (computer scientist)

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Michael Luck is a professor of computer science based at the Department of Informatics, King's College London, in central London, England. His main research area is in intelligent agents and multi-agent systems.

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Michael Luck
Nationality British
Alma mater University College London (PhD)
Scientific career
Fields Computer science, software engineering, software agents
Institutions King's College London

University of Southampton

University of Warwick

Education

Luck was educated at University College London where he was awarded a PhD in 1993.

Career and research

From 1993 to 2000, Michael Luck was a lecturer based in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick. From 2000 to 2006, Luck was a professor in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. While there, he led the AgentLink European Co-ordination Action for Agent-Based Computing. Luck moved to King's College London in 2007 and served as head of the Department of Informatics from 2011 to 2013. In 2013 he was appointed as Executive Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Mathematical Sciences, staying in that role until 2020. In that time he also led the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence, serving as founding Director from 2019 until 2023. From 2021, Luck served as founding Director of the King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

Luck has undertaken research in the area of intelligent agents. He is the co-author of the books Understanding Agent Systems [1] and Agent-Based Software Development. [2]

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Awards and honors

Luck is a Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) [3] , and a British Computer Society (BCS) Fellow. In 2021, he was awarded Fellow of King’s College London [4] .

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References

  1. Mark d'Inverno and Michael Luck, Understanding Agent Systems. Springer Series on Agent Technology, Springer-Verlag, 2001. ISBN   978-3-540-41975-4. 2nd revised and extended edition, 2003. ISBN   978-3-540-40700-3.
  2. Michael Luck, Ronald Ashri, and Mark d'Inverno, Agent-Based Software Development. Agent-Oriented Systems, Artech House Publishers, 2004. ISBN   978-1-58053-605-9.
  3. "Awards". www.eurai.org. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
  4. "Fellows of King's | About | King's College London". www.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 May 2023.