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
editOberlander 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
editIn 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
edit- ^ 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". AI Matters. 4 (1). ACM: 23–24. doi:10.1145/3203247.3203253. S2CID 14015114. Retrieved 18 December 2018 – via sigai.acm.org.
- ^ See his web page.
- ^ "Fellows - The Royal Society of Edinburgh". royalsoced.org.uk. 21 June 2016. Archived from the original on 8 October 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
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