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For the American football player and coach, see [A. Austin Tate](/source/A._Austin_Tate).

**Austin Tate** is Emeritus Professor[2] of [Knowledge-based systems](/source/Knowledge-based_systems) in the [School of Informatics](/source/University_of_Edinburgh_School_of_Informatics) at the [University of Edinburgh](/source/University_of_Edinburgh).[3] From 1985 to 2019 he was Director of AIAI ([Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute](/source/Artificial_Intelligence_Applications_Institute)) in the [School of Informatics](/source/University_of_Edinburgh_School_of_Informatics) at the [University of Edinburgh](/source/University_of_Edinburgh).

He is known for his contributions to [AI Planning](/source/Automated_planning_and_scheduling), applications of [Artificial Intelligence](/source/Artificial_Intelligence), and work on collaborative systems in [Virtual Worlds](/source/Virtual_world).

## Early life and education

Tate was born 12 May 1951, [Knottingley](/source/Knottingley), [West Yorkshire](/source/West_Yorkshire), UK.[4] He completed his B.A. (Hons) Computer Studies, [Lancaster University](/source/Lancaster_University), 1969-1972.[4] He completed his postgraduate study in [Machine Intelligence](/source/Artificial_intelligence) at [University of Edinburgh](/source/University_of_Edinburgh), supervised by [Donald Michie](/source/Donald_Michie), 1972-1975 and a [Master of Science](/source/Master_of_Science) degree in [e-Learning](/source/E-Learning) at the [University of Edinburgh](/source/University_of_Edinburgh), 2011-2012.[4]

## Research and career

Tate's research interests are in [Artificial intelligence](/source/Artificial_intelligence).[1]

### Selected publications

- Tate, A. (1977) Generating Project Networks, Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-77), pp. 888–893, Cambridge, MA, USA, Morgan Kaufmann.[5]
- Currie, K. & Tate, A. (1991). "O-Plan: The open planning architecture". *Artificial Intelligence*. **52**: 49–86. [CiteSeerX 10.1.1.26.2844](https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.26.2844). [doi:10.1016/0004-3702(91)90024-E](https://doi.org/10.1016/0004-3702(91)90024-E). [S2CID 943552](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID: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. 431–458, MIT Press, 2003.
- Tate, A. (2006). "The "Helpful Environment": Geographically Dispersed Intelligent Agents That Collaborate". *IEEE Intelligent Systems*. **21** (3): 57–61. [CiteSeerX 10.1.1.62.8806](https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.62.8806). [doi:10.1109/MIS.2006.61](https://doi.org/10.1109/MIS.2006.61). [S2CID 25195858](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:25195858)
- Tate, A.; Chen-Burger, Y. H.; Dalton, J.; Potter, S.; Richardson, D.; Stader, J.; Wickler, G.; Bankier, I.; Walton, C.; Williams, P. (2010). ["I-Room: A Virtual Space for Intelligent Interaction"](https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/files/14948355/Tate_ChenBurger_et_al_2010_IRoom_a_Virtual_Space_for_Intelligent_Interaction.pdf). *IEEE Intelligent Systems*. **25** (4): 62–71. [doi:10.1109/MIS.2010.5](https://doi.org/10.1109/MIS.2010.5). [hdl:20.500.11820/031ec5f0-40f6-45c6-a7f6-a0a4ebe12b7c](https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11820/031ec5f0-40f6-45c6-a7f6-a0a4ebe12b7c). [S2CID 6699929](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:6699929)
- Other Publications: [O-Plan Papers](http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/oplan/documents/index.html), [I-X Papers](http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/project/ix/documents/contents.html)

### Honours and awards

Tate's awards and honours include:

- 1993 – Elected [AAAI Fellow](/source/AAAI_Fellow)
- 1998 – Fellow of the [Workflow Management Coalition](/source/Workflow_Management_Coalition) (WfMC)
- 1999 – Elected a [Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh](/source/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh) ([FRSE](/source/FRSE))
- 1999 – Fellow of the [European Association for Artificial Intelligence](/source/European_Association_for_Artificial_Intelligence) (EurAI)
- 2000 – Fellow of the [British Computer Society](/source/British_Computer_Society) ([FBCS](/source/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](/source/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Academy_of_Engineering) (FREng)

## Personal life

He was married in 1975 to Margaret (née Mowbray) at [Knottingley](/source/Knottingley), [West Yorkshire](/source/West_Yorkshire), England.[4]

## References

1. [""University of Edinburgh Senatus 13 May 2020"](https://www.ed.ac.uk/academic-services/committees/senate/agendas-papers). *www.ed.ac.uk*. University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 15 January 2021.

1. ["Austin Tate"](http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/). *aiai.ed.ac.uk*. Retrieved 9 March 2019.

1. Tate, Austin (9 March 1977). ["Generating Project Networks"](http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1622943.1623021). Ijcai'77. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc. pp. 888–893. Retrieved 9 March 2019. – via ACM Digital Library.

## External links

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

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