Austin Tate


Austin Tate is Professor of Knowledge-based systems in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He is Director of AIAI 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. He completed his B.A. Computer Studies, Lancaster University, 1969-1972. 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.

Research and career

Tate's research interests are in Artificial intelligence.

Selected publications

Tate's awards and honours include:
He was married in 1975 to Margaret at Knottingley, West Yorkshire, England.