Yorick Wilks
British computer scientist (1939–2023) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yorick Alexander Wilks FBCS (27 October 1939 – 14 April 2023) was a British computer scientist. He was an emeritus professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Sheffield, visiting professor of artificial intelligence at Gresham College (a post created especially for him), senior research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, senior scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, and a member of the Epiphany Philosophers.
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Born | (1939-10-27)27 October 1939 Buckinghamshire, England |
Died | 14 April 2023(2023-04-14) (aged 83) |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Known for | General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE) |
Title | Director of Artificial Intelligence at WiredVibe |
Awards | Loebner Prize (1997); The biennial Antonio Zampolli Prize by the European Language Development Association at LREC (2008); The Lifetime Achievement Award at the ACL (2008); The British Computer Society's Lovelace Medal (2009) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Artificial Intelligence Natural language processing |
Institutions | University of Sheffield University of Oxford |
Thesis | Argument and proof in metaphysics from an empirical point of view (1968) |
Doctoral advisor | R. B. Braithwaite |
Website | staffwww |
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In February 2023, Wilks joined WiredVibe as Director of Artificial Intelligence and Board Member to help commercialise his previous ideas and research.[1]