Alan Mackworth

Canadian artificial intelligence researcher (born 1945)

Alan Mackworth is a professor emeritus in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. He is known as "The Founding Father" of RoboCup.2

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Born Oct 18, 1945.1

About

He is a former president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and former Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence from 2001 to 2014.

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Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedHarvard University3

Mackworth was educated at the University of Toronto (B.A.Sc.), Harvard University (A.M.) and University of Sussex (D.Phil.).

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Career

Occupation: artificial intelligence researcher, computer scientist.7

He served as the founding director of the UBC Laboratory for Computational Intelligence. He was president and trustee of International Joint Conferences on AI (IJCAI) Inc.; he is on the IJCAI executive committee. He has served on many editorial boards and program committees. He was VP and president of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence (CSCSI). He served as president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

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Personal life

  • BornOct 18, 1945, Cambridge8
  • CitizenshipCanada9
  • ResidenceCanada10
  • SpouseMarian Elizabeth Fry married 196911

Awards

  • 2010Lifetime Achievement Award of the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association12 14
  • 1990AAAI Fellow12 13
  • Date not recordedFellow of the Royal Society of Canada12