Max Bramer

Professor Max Bramer

Emeritus Professor of Information Technology, University of Portsmouth, UK
Honorary Secretary, International Federation for Information Processing
Chair, British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence

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Max Bramer

SGAI: The Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence

SGAI is the British national AI society. It is part of the British Computer Society and has been a member of EurAi, the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (formerly ECCAI), since 1992. SGAI was founded in 1980 by British AI pioneer Donald Michie and has played a substantial role in the development of the field in Britain for over 40 years.

It is probably best known for its long-running annual series of international conferences (AI-200x) held in Cambridge each December and as the host of the annual BCS prize competition for ‘Progress towards Machine Intelligence’. SGAI acted as the national host for the world's major AI conference, IJCAI-05, in Edinburgh in August 2005, thus returning IJCAI to Britain for the first time since 1971.

  • Chair of SGAI, the British Computer Society's Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence, which is a member of EurAi, the European Association for Artificial Intelligence.


  • Technical programme chair for many in the annual series of SGAI international conferences AI-20xx. In recent years these have been held at Peterhouse College, Cambridge in December.


  • Co-organiser of the British Computer Society Prize (competition) for Machine Intelligence.


  • List Owner for Artificial Intelligence List Server (AI-SGES). Free membership is open to all.