Speaker Information – Alan Mackworth
Alan Mackworth
Alan Mackworth is a Professor Emeritus of Computer Science. He works on artificial intelligence with applications in constraint satisfaction, cognitive robotics, hybrid systems and constraint-based agents. He invented the world’s first soccer-playing robots. He has authored over 140 papers and co-authored two books: Computational Intelligence: A Logical Approach and Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents. Alan co-founded the pioneering UBC Cognitive Systems Program. He served as President of CAIAC, IJCAII, and AAAI. He is a Fellow of AAAI, CAIAC, CIFAR, AGE-WELL and the Royal Society of Canada. He acts now as a consultant, writer and lecturer.