Jon Oberlander Explained

Jon Reid Oberlander FRSE (16 June 1962 – 19 December 2017) was a British philosopher and cognitive scientist who 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]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Artificial intelligence pioneer Jon Oberlander dies at 55. Mike. Wade. 21 December 2017. 21 December 2017. The Times.
  2. Obituary: Jon Oberlander. Aaron. Quigley. AI Matters. Spring 2018 . 4. 1. 23–24. ACM. 10.1145/3203247.3203253. 14015114. 18 December 2018. sigai.acm.org.
  3. See his web page.
  4. Web site: Fellows - The Royal Society of Edinburgh. royalsoced.org.uk. 21 December 2017. 2016-06-21. 8 October 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161008113046/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/1200_2016ElectedFellows.html. dead.
  5. Web site: Archived copy . 8 March 2016 . 8 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160308223523/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/committees/current_committee_members_web.pdf . dead .