Austin Tate

Austin Tate
Born (1951-05-12) 12 May 1951 (age 73)
Alma materLancaster University (BSc)
University of Edinburgh (MSc, PhD)
Known forAI Planning
Artificial Intelligence
Virtual Worlds
SpouseMargaret Tate
AwardsAAAI Fellow (1993)
Scientific career
FieldsArtificial intelligence[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh
ThesisUsing Goal Structure to Direct Search in a Problem Solver (1975)
Doctoral advisorDonald Michie
Doctoral studentsCarla Gomes
Websitewww.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/

Austin Tate is Emeritus Professor[2] of Knowledge-based systems in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.[3] 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.

  1. ^ Austin Tate publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ ""University of Edinburgh Senatus 13 May 2020". www.ed.ac.uk. University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  3. ^ "Austin Tate". aiai.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 March 2019.