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Professor Austin Tate FREng FRSE CEng FBCS
Personal Chair of Knowledge-based Systems and Director, Artificial
Intelligence Applications Institute, University of Edinburgh; Senior Visiting Scientist,
Florida Institute for Human & Machine Cognition
 Austin Tate is an expert in the development and practical application
of artificial intelligence, especially knowledge-based planning methods, in areas ranging
from emergency response and spacecraft construction to financial help desks. He led the team
which designed, delivered and maintained the Fortran Interface to the commercial IDMS database
system in the 1970s. He developed hierarchical AI approaches to planning which have been widely
adopted. His recent work on "I-X" is concerned with supporting collaboration between human and
system agents to perform cooperative tasks in a "Helpful Environment". His internationally
sponsored research focuses on advanced knowledge and planning technologies, and collaborative
systems especially using virtual worlds. He leads the Virtual University of Edinburgh, Vue, a
virtual educational and research institute, and he is also Coordinator for Distance Education
in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.
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