Prof Austin Tate is Professor Emeritus of Knowledge-Based Systems at the University of Edinburgh and from 1985 to 2019 was the Director of the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute at the University. He helped form AIAI in 1984 and led its efforts to transfer the technologies and methods of artificial intelligence and knowledge systems into commercial, governmental and academic applications throughout the world. He holds degrees in Computer Studies (B.A. Lancaster, 1972) and Machine Intelligence (Ph.D. Edinburgh, 1975) and Distance Education (M.Sc. Edinburgh 2012). He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (Scotland's National Academy), and is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence amongst other honours. He is a professionally Chartered Engineer. He retired in 2020 but remains active as a honorary staff member of the School of Informatics and in a number of open source and open educational resource communities.
Prof. Tate's research interests are in the use of rich process and plan representations along with tools that can utilize these representations to support planning and activity management. He pioneered the early, now widely used and deployed, approaches to hierarchical planning and constraint satisfaction in the Interplan, Nonlin, O-Plan and I-Plan planning systems. His work on "I-X" is concerned with supporting collaboration between human and system agents to perform cooperative tasks in a "Helpful Environment". Prof. Tate was the Edinburgh PI in the Advanced Knowledge Technologies Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration funded by EPSRC. He also led the DARPA funded Coalition Agent eXperiment (CoAX) project involving some 30 organizations in 4 countries over a 3 year period. His work is being applied in a range of domains. His internationally sponsored research work is focused on the use of advanced knowledge and planning technologies, and collaborative systems especially using virtual worlds. He has led the Virtual University of Edinburgh, Vue, a virtual educational and research institute bringing together those interested in the use of virtual worlds for teaching, research and outreach.
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Prof. Austin Tate Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute School of Informatics The University of Edinburgh Informatics Forum, Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, UK
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a.tate@ed.ac.uk Tel: +44 131 651 3222 Avatar: Ai Austin
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