biography
pronunciation:
[michee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1923– )
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| biography:
| Specialist in artificial intelligence, born in Yangon, Myanmar (formerly Rangoon, Burma). He studied at Oxford, and worked on the Colossus code-breaking project in World War 2. After a career in experimental genetics, he developed the study of machine intelligence at Edinburgh University as director of experimental programming (1963–6), and professor of machine intelligence (1967–84, now emeritus). He is editor-in-chief of the Machine Intelligence series, and became chief scientist at the Turing Institute (1986–92), which he founded in Glasgow in 1984. In publications such as On Machine Intelligence (1974) and The Creative Computer (1984) he has argued that computer systems are able to generate new knowledge. |
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