Bound for Brazil... The cutting-edge internationally … and in Hud
Fri, 21 Jan 2011 15:42:00 GMT
Professor Lee McCluskey
A University of Huddersfield scientist who is one of the world leaders in the development of Artificial Intelligence now has a chance to set the global agenda.
The International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) is acknowledged as the premier forum for research in the burgeoning field.
Professor Lee McCluskey is Director of Research in the University of Huddersfield's School of Computing and Engineering but he is still very much involved in teaching – he leads modules containing over 250 undergraduates.
Now Lee, who has played a leading role in previous ICAPS events, will be one of two Programme Chairs when the next conference takes place, in San Paulo, Brazil, in 2012.
He shares the job with Professor Brian C Williams, who is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The two men will have the power to decide which research papers will be presented at the gathering and which workshops, demonstrations and practical activities will take place.
"These conferences and their associated workshops and competitions are great accelerators of the technology," says Lee, whose speciality is 'knowledge engineering'.
He is a leading researcher in a field which is developing machines that will be able to carry out tasks by making decisions based on reasoning. Once they have been set goals by humans, these machines will be able to devise and execute plans to achieve them.
More information on Lee and the work of the Knowledge Engineering and Intelligent Interfaces Research Group can be found at the following web-sites:
- Professor Lee McCluskey / Staff Profile
- Knowledge Engineering and Intelligent Interfaces Research Group
