{{Short description|English computer scientist (born 1951)}} {{for|the American football player and coach|A. Austin Tate}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}} {{Use British English|date=June 2017}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Austin Tate | image = Austin-Tate-2009-2400x2400.jpg | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|FREng|FRSE|size=100%}} | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1951|05|12|df=y}} | birth_place = Knottingley, West Yorkshire, England | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|df=yes|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = Artificial intelligence<ref name=gs>{{Google scholar id}}</ref> | workplaces = University of Edinburgh | alma_mater = Lancaster University (BSc)<br>University of Edinburgh (MSc, PhD) | doctoral_advisor = Donald Michie | academic_advisors = |doctoral_students =Carla Gomes | thesis_title = Using Goal Structure to Direct Search in a Problem Solver | thesis_year = 1975 | thesis_url = http://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/6650 | known_for = AI Planning<br>Artificial Intelligence<br>Virtual Worlds | influences = | influenced = | awards = AAAI Fellow (1993) | signature = <!--(filename only)--> | website = {{URL|www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/}} | spouse = Margaret Tate }}

'''Austin Tate''' is Emeritus Professor<ref>{{cite web|title="University of Edinburgh Senatus 13 May 2020|url=https://www.ed.ac.uk/academic-services/committees/senate/agendas-papers|website=www.ed.ac.uk|publisher=University of Edinburgh|access-date=15 January 2021}}</ref> of Knowledge-based systems in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/|title=Austin Tate|website=aiai.ed.ac.uk|access-date=9 March 2019}}</ref> From 1985 to 2019 he was 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.

==Early life and education== Tate was born 12 May 1951, Knottingley, West Yorkshire, UK.<ref name=WhosWhoAustinTate2015>{{Who's Who | title=Tate, Prof. Austin Tate | id = U257667 | volume = 2015 | access-date = 14 April 2019 }}</ref> He completed his B.A. (Hons) Computer Studies, Lancaster University, 1969-1972.<ref name=WhosWhoAustinTate2015 /> He completed his postgraduate study in Machine Intelligence at University of Edinburgh, supervised by Donald Michie, 1972-1975 and a Master of Science degree in e-Learning at the University of Edinburgh, 2011-2012.<ref name=WhosWhoAustinTate2015 />

==Research and career== Tate's research interests are in Artificial intelligence.<ref name=gs/>

===Selected publications=== * Tate, A. (1977) Generating Project Networks, Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-77), pp.&nbsp;888–893, Cambridge, MA, USA, Morgan Kaufmann.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1622943.1623021|title=Generating Project Networks|first=Austin|last=Tate|series=Ijcai'77|date=9 March 1977|publisher=Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc.|pages=888–893|access-date=9 March 2019|via=ACM Digital Library}}</ref> * {{Cite journal | last1 = Currie | first1 = K. | last2 = Tate | first2 = A. | doi = 10.1016/0004-3702(91)90024-E | title = O-Plan: The open planning architecture | journal = Artificial Intelligence | volume = 52 | pages = 49–86 | year = 1991 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.26.2844 | s2cid = 943552 }} * 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.&nbsp;431–458, MIT Press, 2003. * {{Cite journal | last1 = Tate | first1 = A. | title = The "Helpful Environment": Geographically Dispersed Intelligent Agents That Collaborate | doi = 10.1109/MIS.2006.61 | journal = IEEE Intelligent Systems | volume = 21 | issue = 3 | pages = 57–61 | year = 2006 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.62.8806 | s2cid = 25195858 }} * {{Cite journal | last1 = Tate | first1 = A. | last2 = Chen-Burger | first2 = Y. H. | last3 = Dalton | first3 = J. | last4 = Potter | first4 = S. | last5 = Richardson | first5 = D. | last6 = Stader | first6 = J. | last7 = Wickler | first7 = G. | last8 = Bankier | first8 = I. | last9 = Walton | first9 = C. | doi = 10.1109/MIS.2010.5 | last10 = Williams | first10 = P. | title = I-Room: A Virtual Space for Intelligent Interaction | journal = IEEE Intelligent Systems | volume = 25 | issue = 4 | pages = 62–71 | year = 2010 | s2cid = 6699929 | url = https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/files/14948355/Tate_ChenBurger_et_al_2010_IRoom_a_Virtual_Space_for_Intelligent_Interaction.pdf | hdl = 20.500.11820/031ec5f0-40f6-45c6-a7f6-a0a4ebe12b7c | hdl-access = free }} * Other Publications: [http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/oplan/documents/index.html O-Plan Papers], [http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/ix/documents/contents.html I-X Papers]

===Honours and awards=== Tate's awards and honours include: * 1993 – Elected AAAI Fellow * 1998 – Fellow of the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) * 1999 – Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) * 1999 – Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) * 2000 – Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS) * 2006 – Fellow of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (SSAISB) * 2012 – Elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng)

==Personal life== He was married in 1975 to Margaret (née Mowbray) at Knottingley, West Yorkshire, England.<ref name=WhosWhoAustinTate2015 />

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==External links== * Research: [http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/plan/ AIAI Planning and Activity Management Group website] * AI Planners: [http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/early-planners/ Traverser], [http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/early-planners/ Interplan], [http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/nonlin/ Nonlin], [http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/oplan/ O-Plan], [http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/ix/ I-X/I-Plan] * Example Projects: AKT (Advanced Knowledge Technologies), [http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/coax/ CoAX (Coalition Agents eXperiment)], FireGrid, OpenKnowledge, [http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/i-room/ I-Room], [http://openvce.net/ OpenVCE] * Virtual World Avatar: [http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~ai/ Ai Austin's website] * Interests: [http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/GA/ Austin Tate's Gerry Anderson Web Area], [http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/GA/supercar.html Supercar], [http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/GA/fireball-xl5.html Fireball XL5]

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