Formerly
- Digital Professor of Information Technology and Head of the
Department of Information Science at the University of Portsmouth,
UK
- Knowledge Engineering Programme Manager, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories,
Bristol
- Head of School of Computing and Information Technology,
Thames Polytechnic (now University of Greenwich)
- East
Midlands Regional Director, DES Microelectronics in Education
Programme
- Lecturer in Computer Science, The Open University
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Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society,
Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology
[formerly the Institution of Electrical Engineers], Fellow of the Royal
Society of Arts, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Formerly an elected member of the British Computer Society's Council
for more than 10 years and an elected member of the BCS Specialist Groups
Executive Committee for many years. Formerly Chair of the IET's Professional
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Research interests include data mining (in particular the automatic
derivation of classification rules from examples), case-based reasoning,
model-based approaches to diagnostic reasoning and methodologies for knowledge
engineering. Formerly (before retirement) leader of the University of
Portsmouth's Artificial Intelligence Research Group.
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Chair of SGAI, the British Computer Society's Specialist
Group on Artificial Intelligence. Technical programme chair
and Conference Chair for many conferences in the SGAI
annual international conference series, held in Cambridge, UK each
December. Co-organiser of the annual British
Computer Society Machine Intelligence Prize (competition). Member
of the General Assembly of EurAi,
the European Association for Artificial Intelligence. |
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Honorary Secretary 2019-2025 of IFIP, the
International Federation for Information Processing (https://ifip.org)
Vice-President 2013-2019
Councillor 2008-2013
Member of General Assembly 2003-2025
Member of IFIP Board 2008-2025
Member of Executive Committee 2013-2025
Awarded IFIP Silver Core 2010 for services to the Federation
Chair of IFIP Technical Committee 12 (Artificial Intelligence)
2003-9, Vice-chair 2009-2015 and UK Representative since 1998.
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Formerly member of the editorial board of Expert
Systems: The Journal of Knowledge Engineering
Formerly member of the editorial board of the journal Knowledge
Based Systems
Guest editor of special issues of the journal
for annual SGAI conferences from 1997 to 2010
Formerly series editor for Springer IFIP
Advances in Information and Communication Technology (IFIP AICT) series.
Formerly review board member for Applied
Intelligence journal.
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