Tim Finin

Tim Finin
Tim Finin in 2007
Born (1949-08-04) August 4, 1949 (age 75)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationProfessor
Known forKQML,[2] Swoogle[3]
AwardsACM Fellow, AAAI Fellow
Academic background
EducationMIT, University of Illinois
Alma materUniversity of Illinois
ThesisThe Semantic Interpretation of Compound Nominals (1980)
Doctoral advisorDavid Waltz[1]
Academic work
EraAnthropocene
DisciplineComputer science
Sub-disciplineArtificial intelligence, Semantic web, Natural language processing, Social media, Mobile computing
InstitutionsUMBC, Unisys, University of Pennsylvania, MIT, JHU
Notable ideasAgent Communications Language
Websiteumbc.edu/~finin

Timothy Wilking Finin (born August 4, 1949) is the Willard and Lillian Hackerman Chair in Engineering and is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). His research has focused on the applications of artificial intelligence to problems in information systems and has included contributions to natural language processing, expert systems, the theory and applications of multiagent systems, the semantic web, and mobile computing.[4][5]

  1. ^ Tim Finin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Finin, T.; Fritzson, R.; McKay, D.; McEntire, R. (1994). "KQML as an agent communication language". Proceedings of the third international conference on Information and knowledge management - CIKM '94. p. 456. doi:10.1145/191246.191322. hdl:11603/12735. ISBN 0897916743. S2CID 1129799.
  3. ^ Ding, L.; Finin, T.; Joshi, A.; Pan, R.; Cost, R. S.; Peng, Y.; Reddivari, P.; Doshi, V.; Sachs, J. (2004). "Swoogle". Proceedings of the Thirteenth ACM conference on Information and knowledge management - CIKM '04. p. 652. doi:10.1145/1031171.1031289. hdl:11603/12234. ISBN 1581138741. S2CID 207155768.
  4. ^ Tim Finin publications indexed by Google Scholar
  5. ^ Timothy W. Finin at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata