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
Academy of Engineering, 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.
