Donald Michie

Donald Michie ( born November 11, 1923 in Rangoon, Burma; † 7 July 2007) was a British researcher in the field of artificial intelligence. In an obituary of the journal Nature, he was referred to as "the father of artificial intelligence in the UK ".

Life

During World War II, Michie worked in the GC & CS at Bletchley Park English at the decipherment of the German Lorenz cipher machine " key accessory SZ 40/42 ", by the British Tunny ( German: " Tuna " ) called. Between 1945 and 1952 he studied at Balliol College at Oxford University and anatomy and physiology. In 1953 he was awarded his doctorate for DPhil in genetics. Between 1952 and 1958 he was a research assistant at Department of Zoology, University of London. Since 1958, he taught at the University of Edinburgh. In 1971 he was awarded his doctorate for DSc in Biological Sciences.

Michie was director of the University of Edinburgh 's Department of Machine Intelligence and Perception (formerly Experimental Programming Unit ). Since its inception in 1966 From 1974 until his retirement in 1984, he was head of the Machine Intelligence Research Unit in Edinburgh.

He taught as a visiting professor at the University of Birmingham, the Russian Academy of Sciences, Oxford University and Princeton University. For his scientific work on artificial intelligence, he was a member of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence. He was a full member of the British Computer Society, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Michie has been awarded honorary doctorates of the Council for National Academic Awards ( CNAA ), Salford University, the University of Aberdeen, the University of York and the University of Stirling.

In 1995 he was honored with the Achievement Medal of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (UK) for his research in the field of computer applications and control, 1996 with the Feigenbaum Medal of the World Congress on Expert Systems for its developments in mechatronics. In 2001 he received the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence.

Professor Michie was the founder and editor of the journal Machine Intelligence. He was also the founder and treasurer of the Human-Computer Learning Foundation, a British charity institution.

Michie was married from 1955 to 1959 with the biologist Anne McLaren and is the father of the economist Jonathan Michie. Donald Michie and Anne McLaren died in a car accident on the M11 between Cambridge and London. He left several children and grandchildren.

Work

Michie was one of the UK's leading experts in the field of artificial intelligence and developed in 1960 one of the first programs that "learn" was perfect to play Tic -Tac -Toe the " Noughts And Crosses Engine Machine educable " ( MENACE ).

In addition, he developed the fundamentals of memoization, which serves to speed up computer programs by return values ​​are cached by functions.

Writings

  • Machine Intelligence, Edinburgh UP 1971, ISBN 0444196064, along with Bernard N. Meltzer
  • On Machine Intelligence, Edinburgh UP 1974, ISBN 085224262X
  • Expert Systems in the Micro Electronic Age, Edinburgh UP 1979, ISBN 0852243812
  • Machine Intelligence and Related Topics, Harwood Academic 1982, ISBN 0677055609
  • Introductory Readings in Expert Systems ( Topics in Computer Mathematics ), Harwood Academic 1982, ISBN 0677163509
  • Intelligent Systems: The Unprecedented Opportunity, Longman 1984, ISBN 0853128316, along with Jean E. Hayes
  • The Creative Computer: Machine Intelligence and Human Knowledge, Viking 1984, ISBN 0670800600, along with Rory Johnston
  • The creative computer. Artificial intelligence and human knowledge. Rasch and Röhring 1987, ISBN 3-89136-037-1, along with Rory Johnston

Series " Machine Intelligence "

  • Machine Intelligence, Edinburgh University Press 1969, ISBN 0852240627, along with Bernard N. Meltzer
  • Machine Intelligence: Machine Representations of Knowledge No.8, Ellis Horwood 1977, ISBN 0853120587, along with EW Elcock
  • Machine Intelligence: Machine Intelligence and Inductive Learning No.13, Clarendon Press 1993, ISBN 0198538502, along with Koichi Furukawa, Stephen Muggleton
  • Machine Intelligence: Applied Machine Intelligence No.14, Clarendon Press 1996, ISBN 019853860X, along with Koichi Furukawa, Stephen Muggleton
  • Machine Intelligence: Intelligent Agents No.15, Oxford University Press 1999, ISBN 0198538677, along with Koichi Furukawa, Stephen Muggleton
July 7 Balliol College, Oxford EG (magazine) Integrated Authority File Dennis Babbage D. R. Shackleton Bailey Keith Batey Harry Golombek John R.F. Jeffreys Dilly Knox David Rees (mathematician) Gordon Welchman Shaun Wylie Leslie Yoxall
245699
de