Austin Tate

Austin Tate

Institutions	University of Edinburgh
Alma mater	Lancaster University, University of Edinburgh
Thesis	Using Goal Structure to Direct Search in a Problem Solver (1975)
Doctoral advisor	Donald Michie
Known for	AI Planning, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Worlds

Austin Tate is Professor of Knowledge-based systems at the University of Edinburgh.^[1] He is 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.

Biographical Information

Born 12 May 1951, Knottingley, West Yorkshire, UK
Married 14 July 1975 to Margaret (née Mowbray) at Knottingley, West Yorkshire, UK
B.A. (Hons) Computer Studies, Lancaster University, 1969-1972
PhD in Machine Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, supervised by Donald Michie, 1972-1975
MSc in e-Learning, University of Edinburgh, 2011-2012

Tate, A. (1977) Generating Project Networks, Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-77), pp. 888–893, Cambridge, MA, USA, Morgan Kaufmann.
Currie, K.; Tate, A. (1991). "O-Plan: The open planning architecture". Artificial Intelligence. 52: 49–86. doi:10.1016/0004-3702(91)90024-E.
Tate, A., Levine, J., Dalton, J. and Nixon, A. (2003) Task Achieving Agents on the World Wide Web, in "Spinning the Semantic Web" (Fensel, D., Hendler, J., Liebermann, H. and Wahlster, W.), Chapter 15, pp. 431–458, MIT Press, 2003.
Tate, A. (2006). "The "Helpful Environment": Geographically Dispersed Intelligent Agents That Collaborate". IEEE Intelligent Systems. 21 (3): 57–61. doi:10.1109/MIS.2006.61.
Tate, A.; Chen-Burger, Y. H.; Dalton, J.; Potter, S.; Richardson, D.; Stader, J.; Wickler, G.; Bankier, I.; Walton, C.; Williams, P. (2010). "I-Room: A Virtual Space for Intelligent Interaction". IEEE Intelligent Systems. 25 (4): 62–71. doi:10.1109/MIS.2010.5.
Other Publications: O-Plan Papers, I-X Papers

Authority control	ORCID: 0000-0001-6387-5582 MGP: 102660

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