Michael Wooldridge (computer scientist)

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Michael Wooldridge
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Wooldridge in 2015
Born
Michael John Wooldridge

(1966-08-26) 26 August 1966 (age 58)
Wakefield, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
Known for Multiagent systems
SpouseJanine Wooldridge
Children2
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Thesis The Logical Modelling of Computational Multi-agent Systems  (1992)
Doctoral advisor Gregory O'Hare [5]
Website www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/michael.wooldridge OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Michael John Wooldridge (born 26 August 1966) is a professor of computer science at the University of Oxford. His main research interests is in multi-agent systems, and in particular, in the computational theory aspects of rational action in systems composed of multiple self-interested agents. [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] His work is characterised by the use of techniques from computational logic, game theory, and social choice theory.

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Education

Wooldridge was educated at Wolverhampton Polytechnic where he gained a BSc in 1989 [11] and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) where he was awarded a PhD in 1991 for research supervised by Gregory O'Hare. [5] [12]

Career and research

Wooldridge was appointed a lecturer in Computer Science at the Manchester Metropolitan University in 1992. In 1996, he moved to London, where he became senior lecturer at Queen Mary and Westfield College in 1998. His appointment as full professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool followed in 1999. In Liverpool he served as head of department from 2001 to 2005 and as head of the School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics, and Computer Science from 2008 to 2011. In 2012 the European Research Council awarded him a five-year ERC Advanced Grant for the project Reasoning about Computational Economies (RACE). In the same year he left Liverpool to become professor of computer science at the University of Oxford, and served as head of the Department of Computer Science from 2014 - 2018. In Oxford he is a senior research fellow of Hertford College, Oxford.

Michael Wooldridge is author of more than 300 academic publications. [4] [13] [14]

Editorial service

Other editorships: Journal of Applied Logic, Journal of Logic and Computation , Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence, and Computational Intelligence .

Awards and honours

He is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), a European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) Fellow, a Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) Fellow, and a British Computer Society (BCS) Fellow. In 2015, he was made Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow for his contributions to multi-agent systems and the formalisation of rational action in multi-agent environments. [15]

Publications

References

  1. "ACM Fellows Named for Computing Innovations that Are Advancing Technology in the Digital Age". acm.org. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Elected AAAI Fellows". aaai.org. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
  3. 1 2 Wooldridge, Michael (2023). "How to Build an Intelligent Machine". bbc.co.uk. BBC.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Michael Wooldridge publications indexed by Google Scholar OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  5. 1 2 Michael Wooldridge at the Mathematics Genealogy Project OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  6. Wooldridge, Michael (2000). Reasoning about Rational Agents. MIT Press. p.  246. ISBN   978-0262515566.
  7. Wooldridge, Michael (2002). An Introduction to Multi-agent Systems (first ed.). John Wiley & Sons. p. 366. ISBN   978-0471496915.
  8. Bussmann, Stefan; Jennings, Nicholas R.; Wooldridge, Michael (2004). Multiagent Systems for Manufacturing Control. Springer-Verlag. p. 288. ISBN   978-3540209249.
  9. Bordini, Rafael H.; Hübner, Jomi Fred; Wooldridge, Michael (2007). Programming Multi-agent Systems in AgentSpeak Using Jason. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 292. ISBN   978-0470029008.
  10. Wooldridge, Michael (2009). An Introduction to Multi-agent Systems (second ed.). John Wiley & Sons. p. 484. ISBN   978-0470519462.
  11. 1 2 Al-Khalili, Jim (2023). "Michael Wooldridge on AI and sentient robots". bbc.co.uk.
  12. Wooldridge, Michael John (1992). The Logical Modelling of Computational Multi-agent Systems. manchester.ac.uk (PhD). University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. OCLC   556774497. EThOS   uk.bl.ethos.387317.
  13. Michael Wooldridge at DBLP Bibliography Server OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  14. www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/michael.wooldridge OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  15. 1 2 "News release Association for Computing Machinery, December 8, 2015". Archived from the original on 9 December 2015. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
  16. Wooldridge, Michael; Jennings, Nicholas R. (2009). "Intelligent agents: theory and practice". The Knowledge Engineering Review. 10 (2): 115. doi:10.1017/S0269888900008122. hdl: 10044/1/35975 . ISSN   0269-8889. S2CID   221342993.
  17. "Web page ACM SIGAI". sigai.acm.org. Retrieved 3 September 2016.