Jon Oberlander
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Jon Reid Oberlander FRSE (16 June 1962 – 19 December 2017) was Professor of Epistemics at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. He received a BA in Philosophy from Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1983 and a PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1987.[1][2]
Research[]
Oberlander described three main strands in his research:[3] intelligent labelling; affect in communication (e.g., in research on personality types in emails with Alastair Gill); and multimodal reasoning and communication (e.g., in research with Keith Stenning on diagrammatic reasoning).
Honours[]
In March 2016 Oberlander was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's National Academy for science and letters, where he served as a member of their Young People's committee.[4][5]
References[]
- ^ Wade, Mike (21 December 2017). "Artificial intelligence pioneer Jon Oberlander dies at 55". The Times. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
- ^ Quigley, Aaron (Spring 2018). "Obituary: Jon Oberlander". ACM. Retrieved 18 December 2018 – via sigai.acm.org.
- ^ See his web page.
- ^ "Fellows - The Royal Society of Edinburgh". royalsoced.org.uk. 21 June 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
- ^ https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/committees/current_committee_members_web.pdf
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- 1962 births
- 2017 deaths
- Academics of the University of Edinburgh
- Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge
- British philosophers
- Cognitive scientists
- Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh