Austin Tate

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English computer scientist (born 1951)

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nameAustin Tate
imageAustin-Tate-2009-2400x2400.jpg
honorific_suffix
birth_date
birth_placeKnottingley, West Yorkshire, England
death_date
fieldsArtificial intelligence
workplacesUniversity of Edinburgh
alma_materLancaster University (BSc)
University of Edinburgh (MSc, PhD)
doctoral_advisorDonald Michie
doctoral_studentsCarla Gomes
thesis_titleUsing Goal Structure to Direct Search in a Problem Solver
thesis_year1975
thesis_urlhttp://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/6650
known_forAI Planning
Artificial Intelligence
Virtual Worlds
awardsAAAI Fellow (1993)
signature
website
spouseMargaret Tate
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Austin Tate is Emeritus Professor of Knowledge-based systems in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. 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. He completed his B.A. (Hons) Computer Studies, Lancaster University, 1969-1972. 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.

Research and career

Tate's research interests are in Artificial intelligence.

Selected publications

  • Tate, A. (1977) Generating Project Networks, Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-77), pp. 888–893, Cambridge, MA, USA, Morgan Kaufmann.
  • Tate, A., Levine, J., Dalton, J. and Nixon, A. (2003) Task Achieving Agents on the World Wide Web, in "Spinning the Semantic Web" (Fensel, D., Hendler, J., Liebermann, H. and Wahlster, W.), Chapter 15, pp. 431–458, MIT Press, 2003.
  • Other Publications: O-Plan Papers, I-X Papers

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.

References

References

  1. {{Google scholar id
  2. ""University of Edinburgh Senatus 13 May 2020". University of Edinburgh.
  3. "Austin Tate".
  4. "Tate, Prof. Austin Tate".
  5. Tate, Austin. (9 March 1977). "Generating Project Networks". Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc..

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