Professor
Donald Michie
(
–
)
1923
2007
University of Edinburgh
;
Edinburgh, Scotland
Computer scientist; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Computer Sciences
Elected
2001
International Honorary Member
More than any other scientist, he is responsible for establishing mainstream artificial intelligence in the UK. His leadership is manifested by founding a university department (at Edinburgh), an Institute (Turing Institute), many important books (Machine Intelligence series), and research in heuristic search, expert systems, machine learning, and robotics.
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