Donald Michie

Donald Michie
FRSE FBCS
Michie in 1987
Born(1923-11-11)11 November 1923
Rangoon, British Burma
Died7 July 2007(2007-07-07) (aged 83)
North Weald Bassett, England
NationalityBritish
EducationRugby School
Alma materBalliol College, Oxford
Known forArtificial intelligence
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(m. 1952; div. 1959)​
Scientific career
FieldsArtificial intelligence
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Doctoral students
Websitewww.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~dm

Donald Michie FRSE FBCS (/ˈmɪki/; 11 November 1923 – 7 July 2007)[5][6][7] was a British researcher in artificial intelligence.[8] During World War II, Michie worked for the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, contributing to the effort to solve "Tunny", a German teleprinter cipher.

He founded The Turing Institute in Glasgow, alongside Peter Mowforth and Tim Niblett.[9] In 1984, the institute worked under contract from Radian Corp[10] to develop code for the Space Shuttle auto-lander.[11]

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  5. ^ Muggleton, Stephen (10 July 2007). "Donald Michie". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 10 July 2007.
  6. ^ Boden, M. (2007). "Obituary: Donald Michie (1923–2007)". Nature. 448 (7155): 765. Bibcode:2007Natur.448..765B. doi:10.1038/448765a. PMID 17700692. S2CID 5239830.
  7. ^ Anon (8 July 2007). "Academic pair killed in car crash". BBC News. Retrieved 8 July 2007.
  8. ^ "Donald Michie home page". www.aiai.ed.ac.uk.
  9. ^ BBC Micro Live 1987 final programme features a short interview with him as director of The Turing Institute, Glasgow.
  10. ^ Muggleton, Stephen (1996). "Machine intelligibility and the duality principle". p. 8. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.45.4007.
  11. ^ Donald Michie (26 April 1990). The Superarticulacy Phenomenon. University of Cambridge. p. 427. ISBN 978-0-521-35944-3. Retrieved 16 December 2013 – via Google Books.