Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute
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Operations Director, Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute |
Robert Rae obtained his B.Sc. (Hons) in Mathematics with Mathematical Physics from the University of Edinburgh in 1967 and immediately enrolled for the Diploma in Machine Intelligence and Perception, in which he obtained a distinguished pass in 1968, at the then Department of Machine Intelligence and Perception, now the department of Artificial Intelligence.
Mr Rae worked in the Department until 1984. He was a member of original POP-2 team, becoming departmental Software Manager and responsible, in 1974, for all AI software provision and support for the UK national SERC PDP-10 community. This included POP-2, Lisp, REDUCE and, later, DEC-10 Prolog. He became concerned with system evaluation for SERC on a long-term basis, including work stations, which resulted in the general adoption of the Sun family. responsible for an Alvey project to produce a portable, efficient Prolog system as successor to DEC-10 Prolog; this resulted in the Edinburgh Prolog system.
In 1983, he formed and managed the Programming Systems Group, then, in 1984, moved with his entire group to help found the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute at the University of Edinburgh where he became Assistant Director, manager of the Programming Systems Group, and joint manager of the Knowledge Representation and Expert Systems Group. Within this framework, he was the first manager of both the Knowledge Representation Systems Trials Laboratory and the Parallel Architectures Laboratory which were established under Alvey and DTI funding in 1986.
He was appointed Deputy Director of the Institute in 1988, when he relinquished responsibility for the Programming Systems Group, taking sole charge of the Knowledge Representation and Expert Systems Group providing training and project and consultancy work, mainly to industry. Clients included European Silicon Structures, IBM, and the Union Bank of Switzerland.
Following re-organisation, the successful KRES group was specialised to form the Knowledge Engineering Methods Group and the Knowledge Based Decision Support Group, and Mr Rae was appointed Operations Director. He is currently involved mainly in the Institute's commercially funded work, and is responsible for the Institute's operating procedures and computer infrastructure.
He is a member of the IEEE, was a member of the editorial board for Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing from 1987 until 1992, and served as a director of the Scottish Software Federation from 1990 to 1992. He was the co-author of the report Work Stations for Expert Systems for the Insight Study Group, 1985; an invited lecturer on Computing Facilities Required for Expert Systems for the ISTEL workshop 1986; and co-presenter of the AI programming and Software Engineering tutorial at the Software Engineering 86 conference.
He has recently edited and co-authored FORMATION: Knowledge-Based Layout of Classified Telephone Directories; Gail Anderson, Andrew Casson, Ann Macintosh, Robert Rae, AIAI and Barry Gleeson, Simon Carter, Pindar Set Ltd; Applications and Innovations in Expert Systems IV, Proceedings of BCS Expert Systems '96, Cambridge, UK; December 1996.
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Robert Rae Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute University of Edinburgh 80 South Bridge Edinburgh EH1 1HN, United Kingdom |
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Tel: +44 (131) 650 2732 Fax: +44 (131) 650 6513 Email: rhr@aiai.ed.ac.uk WWW: http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~rhr/ |
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