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Austin Tate

Austin Tate

Austin Tate is Emeritus Professor of Knowledge-Based Systems at the University of Edinburgh. He was Director of the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute (AIAI) from 1985 to 2019. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE, Scotland’s National Academy), Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of AI (FAAAI), Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) and Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS). His research involves advanced knowledge and planning technologies, and collaborative systems especially for emergency response and using virtual worlds. He is coordinator for the Virtual University of Edinburgh (Vue) a virtual educational and research institute bringing together those interested in the use of virtual worlds for teaching, research and outreach.

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