Mark d'Inverno

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| name = Mark d'Inverno

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1965|08|29}}

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| nationality = British

| field = Computer science, software engineering, formal methods, software agents, interdisciplinary

| work_institution = Goldsmiths College, University of London

Goldsmiths, University of London

| alma_mater = University of Oxford

University College London

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Mark d'Inverno (born 29 August 1965){{cite web | url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/birthday.php?pg=242&&width=1366 | title=Jazz Musicians Born On August 29 | publisher=All About Jazz | accessdate=2018-04-15}} is a British computer scientist, currently a professor of Computer Science at Goldsmiths, University of London, in east London, England.

Biography

d'Inverno studied for an MA in Mathematics and an MSc in Computation at St Catherine's College, Oxford. He was awarded a PhD from University College London in artificial intelligence.

For four years between 2007 and 2011, d'Inverno head of the Department of Computing,{{cite web|url=http://www.gold.ac.uk/computing/ |title=Department of Computing, Goldsmiths, University of London |website=Gold.ac.uk |accessdate=17 April 2017}} which has championed interdisciplinary research and teaching around computers and creativity for nearly a decade. He has published over 100 articles{{GoogleScholar|ViBXr9cAAAAJ}}. including books, journal and conference articles and has led recent research projects in a diverse range of fields relating to computer science including multi-agent systems, systems biology, art, design, and music. He is currently{{when|date=April 2017}} the principal investigator or co-investigator on a range of projects including designing systems for sharing online cultural experiences, connecting communities through video orchestration, building online communities of music practice.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}

In 2011/12, d'Inverno took a research sabbatical shared between the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute{{cite web|url=http://www.iiia.csic.es/ |title=Iiia Csic |language=es |website=Iiia.csic.es |date=31 August 2016 |accessdate=17 April 2017}} in Barcelona, Spain, and Sony Computer Science Laboratory{{cite web|url=http://www.csl.sony.fr/ |title=Sony CSL Paris |website=Csl.sony.fr |accessdate=17 April 2017}} in Paris, France.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}

Musical activities

d'Inverno is a jazz pianist and composer,{{cite web| url=http://www.londonjazznews.com/2014/09/preview-mark-dinverno-quintet-count-on.html | title=PREVIEW: Mark d'Inverno Quintet -Count on it album launch (Pizza Express Nov 1st) | website=Londonjazznews.com | publisher=London Jazz News | date=11 September 2014 | accessdate=14 April 2017}} his album Joy receiving a number of favourable reviews{{cite web|url=http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/~mas02md/page4/page4.html |title=Joy - First Album |accessdate=2 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120325204726/http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/~mas02md/page4/page4.html |archivedate=25 March 2012 }} and over the last few decades has led a variety of bands in a range of different musical genres (e.g., the Mark d'Inverno Quintet{{cite web| url=http://www.markdinvernoquintet.com/ | title=Mark d'Inverno Quintet | accessdate=14 April 2017 }}{{cite web| url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIVimgzwLXA |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818075411/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIVimgzwLXA |archive-date=2017-08-18 |url-status=dead| title=Introducing the Mark d'Inverno Quintet | via=YouTube | author=Sony CSL | accessdate=14 April 2017 }}), his album Joy receiving a number of critical plaudits, and playing in London at venues including the National Theatre, London.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}

Personal life

d'Inverno was an original trustee and the first chairman of the charity Safe Ground{{cite web|url=http://www.safeground.org.uk/ |title=Safe Ground |publisher=Safe Ground |accessdate=17 April 2017}} in 1994,{{citation needed|date=April 2017}} which in more recent years or so has developed a range of courses that were originally devised by prisoners that have been delivered in a large number of UK prisons including Family Man{{cite web|url=http://www.safeground.org.uk/courses-for-prisoners/family-man-revised/ |title=Family Man |publisher=Safe Ground |accessdate=17 April 2017}} and Father's Inside.{{cite web|url=http://www.safeground.org.uk/courses-for-prisoners/fathers-inside/ |title=Fathers Inside |publisher=Safe Ground |date=15 July 2015 |accessdate=17 April 2017}}

Mark d'Inverno has been captain of the Weekenders Cricket Club{{cite web|url=http://www.weekenderscc.org/ |title=Weekenders Cricket Club |website=Weekenderscc.org |accessdate=17 April 2017}} for 11 years,{{when|date=April 2017}} which was founded by the actor Clive Swift, with the writer Christopher Douglas as its long-serving secretary.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}

d'Inverno is partner to the theatre and opera director Melly Still.{{citation needed|date=April 2017}}

Selected books and papers

J. McCormack and M. d'Inverno, Computers and Creativity, Springer, 2012.
M. d'Inverno and M.Luck, Understanding Agent Systems, 2nd edition, Springer, 2004.
Mark d'Inverno and Michael Luck, Creativity through Autonomy and Interaction, Cognitive Computing, 2012.
Mark d'Inverno, Michael Luck, Pablo Noriega, Juan Rodriguez-Aguilar and Carles Sierra, A framework for communication in open systems, Artificial Intelligence, 186:38–94, 2012.
Ben Fields, Kurt Jacobson, Christophe Rhodes, Mark d'Inverno, Mark Sandler and Michael Casey, Analysis and Exploitation of Musician Social Networks for Recommendation and Discovery, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 13(4): 674–686, 2011.
Jon Bird, Mark d'Inverno and Jane Prophet, Net Work: An Interactive Artwork Designed Using an Interdisciplinary Collaborative Approach, Special Issue on Computational Models of Creativity in the Arts, Journal of Digital Creativity, 18(1), 1123, 2007.
Mark d'Inverno, Michael Luck, Michael Georgeff, David Kinny and Michael Wooldridge, The dMARS architecture: A specification of the distributed multi-agent reasoning system, Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 9(1–2):5–53, 2004.
Jon McCormack and Mark d'Inverno, Why does Computing matter to Creativity?, in Jon McCormack and Mark d'Inverno (eds.), Springer, 2012.
Mark d'Inverno, Neil Theise and Jane Prophet, Mathematical modelling of stem cells: a complexity primer for the stem cell biologist, In Christopher Potten, Jim Watson, Robert Clarke, and Andrew Renehan, editors, Tissue Stem Cells: Biology and Applications, pages 1–15, Taylor and Francis, 2008.
Michael O. Jewell, Christophe Rhodes, and Mark d'Inverno, Querying Improvised Music: Do You Sound Like Yourself? 11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2010), pages 483–488, 2010.