Jon Oberlander
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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.{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/artificial-intelligence-pioneer-jon-oberlander-dies-at-55-987q9326j|title=Artificial intelligence pioneer Jon Oberlander dies at 55|first=Mike|last=Wade|date=21 December 2017|access-date=21 December 2017|newspaper=The Times}}{{cite journal|url=https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3203247.3203253|title=Obituary: Jon Oberlander|first=Aaron|last=Quigley|journal=AI Matters|date=Spring 2018 |volume=4|issue=1|pages=23–24|publisher=ACM|doi=10.1145/3203247.3203253|s2cid=14015114|access-date=18 December 2018|via=sigai.acm.org|url-access=subscription}}
Research
Oberlander described three main strands in his research:See his web page. 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.{{cite web|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/1200_2016ElectedFellows.html|title=Fellows - The Royal Society of Edinburgh|website=royalsoced.org.uk|access-date=21 December 2017|date=2016-06-21|archive-date=8 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161008113046/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/1200_2016ElectedFellows.html|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/committees/current_committee_members_web.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=8 March 2016 |archive-date=8 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308223523/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/committees/current_committee_members_web.pdf |url-status=dead }}
References
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External links
- [http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jon/ Jon Oberlander's homepage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051030021316/http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jon/ |date=30 October 2005 }}
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Category:Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge
Category:British cognitive scientists