Austin Tate is Director of the Artificial Intelligence Applications
Institute (AIAI) and holds the Personal Chair of Knowledge-Based
Systems at the University of Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Edinburgh (Scotland's National Academy), Fellow of the
Association for the Advancement of AI, Fellow of the British Computer
Society, Senior Visiting Research Scientist at the Institute of Human
Machine Cognition (IHMC) in Florida, and on the editorial board of a
number of AI journals. His internationally sponsored research work is
focused on emergency response and involves advanced knowledge and
planning technologies, and collaborative systems especially using
virtual worlds.
