MA Ph.D. Yorick WILKS Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield
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1970-1974 | Research Associate and Lecturer, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Stanford University, California |
1974-1975 | Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Semantic and Cognitive Studies, Castagnola, Switzerland |
1975-1976 | Senior Visiting Fellow, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh |
1976-1978 | Reader in Linguistics, University of Essex |
1978-1983 | Professor of Linguistics, University of Essex |
1980-1983 | Head of Department of Linguistics, University of Essex |
1983 | Commonwealth of Australia Visiting Professor, Monash University, New South Wales |
1984-1985 | Professor of Computer Science, University of Essex |
1985-1993 | Director, Computing Research Laboratory, Professor of Computer Science, New Mexico State University |
since 1993 | Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University of Sheffield |
1998-2002 | Head of Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield |
since 2006 | Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, Balliol College, Oxford |
Mitgliedschaften
Association for Computational Linguistics | |
Society for the Study of AI and Simulation of Behaviour | |
Association for Computing Machinery | |
Cognitive Science Society | |
British Society for the Philosophy of Science | |
Mind Association | |
American Association for Artificial Intelligence | |
Aristotelean Society |
Publikationen
Artificial Companions. In International Scientific Review, 2004 | |
Machine Translation: It's scopeand Limits. Springer; New York, 2008 | |
What is the Semantic Web and what will it do for eScience? In R. Kumar Jain (ed.) Semantic Web: Concepts and Applications. ICfai Press, Hyderabad, 2008 | |
Artificial Companions and Society. John Benjamins; Amsterdam, in press |
Auszeichnungen
SRC Senior Visiting Fellowship, University of Edinburgh, 1975 | |
NATO Senior Scientist Fellowship, 1979 | |
Invited Participant in the Nobel Symposium on Language, Stockholm, 1980 | |
Elected Fellow of European Association for Artificial Intelligence, 1998 | |
Elected to UK Computing Research Council, 2004 | |
Lifetime Achievement Award (ACL, awarded at ACL-08 in Columbus, OH), 2008 | |
Zampolli Prize (ELDA, awarded at LREC-08 in Marrakech, Morocco), 2008 | |
Lovelace Medal (British Computer Society), 2009 |