Michael Wooldridge (computer scientist)
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| name = Michael Wooldridge
| birth_name = Michael John Wooldridge
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| caption = Wooldridge in 2015
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1966|8|26}}
| birth_place = Wakefield, United Kingdom
| spouse = Janine Wooldridge
| children = 2
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| nationality = British
| fields = {{Plainlist|
- Artificial intelligence
- Multi-agent systems
- Computer Science
- Intelligent agents
- Knowledge representation}}
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- Wolverhampton Polytechnic (BSc)
- University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (PhD)}}
| thesis_title = The Logical Modelling of Computational Multi-agent Systems
| thesis_url = https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387317
| thesis_year = 1992
| doctoral_advisor = Gregory O'Hare{{MathGenealogy}}
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| known_for = Multiagent systems
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- ACM Fellow (2015){{cite web|url=https://www.acm.org/media-center/2015/december/fellows-2015|title=ACM Fellows Named for Computing Innovations that Are Advancing Technology in the Digital Age|website=acm.org|accessdate=12 November 2018}}
- AAAI Fellow (2008){{cite web|url=https://www.aaai.org/Awards/fellows-list.php|title=Elected AAAI Fellows|website=aaai.org|accessdate=12 November 2018}}
- BCS Lovelace Medal (2020)
- Royal Institution Christmas Lectures (2023)}}
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Michael John Wooldridge (born 26 August 1966) is a professor of computer science at the University of Oxford. His main research interests is in multi-agent systems, and in particular, in the computational theory aspects of rational action in systems composed of multiple self-interested agents.{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/reasoningaboutra0000wool/page/246|title=Reasoning about Rational Agents|last=Wooldridge|first=Michael|date=2000|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=978-0262515566|location=|page=[https://archive.org/details/reasoningaboutra0000wool/page/246 246]}}{{cite book|url=|title=An Introduction to Multi-agent Systems|last=Wooldridge|first=Michael|date=2002|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0471496915|location=|page=366|edition=first}}{{cite book|url=|title=Multiagent Systems for Manufacturing Control|last2=Jennings|first2=Nicholas R.|authorlink2=Nick Jennings (computer scientist)|last3=Wooldridge|first3=Michael|date=2004|publisher=Springer-Verlag|isbn=978-3540209249|location=|page=288|last1=Bussmann|first1=Stefan}}{{cite book|url=|title=Programming Multi-agent Systems in AgentSpeak Using Jason|last2=Hübner|first2=Jomi Fred|last3=Wooldridge|first3=Michael|date=2007|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|isbn=978-0470029008|location=|page=292|last1=Bordini|first1=Rafael H.}}{{cite book|url=|title=An Introduction to Multi-agent Systems|last=Wooldridge|first=Michael|date=2009|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0470519462|location=|page=484|edition=second}} His work is characterised by the use of techniques from computational logic, game theory, and social choice theory.
Education
Wooldridge was educated at Wolverhampton Polytechnic where he gained a BSc in 1989{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001tgk9|website=bbc.co.uk|title=Michael Wooldridge on AI and sentient robots|first=Jim|last=Al-Khalili|year=2023}} and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) where he was awarded a PhD in 1991 for research supervised by Gregory O'Hare.{{cite thesis|last=Wooldridge|first=Michael John|title=The Logical Modelling of Computational Multi-agent Systems|year=1992|publisher=University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology|type=PhD|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.387317}}|oclc=556774497|url=
https://www.librarysearch.manchester.ac.uk/permalink/44MAN_INST/bofker/alma9921344494401631|website=manchester.ac.uk}}
Career and research
Wooldridge was appointed a lecturer in Computer Science at the Manchester Metropolitan University in 1992. In 1996, he moved to London, where he became senior lecturer at Queen Mary and Westfield College in 1998. His appointment as full professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Liverpool followed in 1999. In Liverpool he served as head of department from 2001 to 2005 and as head of the School of Electrical Engineering, Electronics, and Computer Science from 2008 to 2011. In 2012 the European Research Council awarded him a five-year ERC Advanced Grant for the project Reasoning about Computational Economies (RACE). In the same year he left Liverpool to become professor of computer science at the University of Oxford, and served as head of the Department of Computer Science from 2014 - 2018. In Oxford he is a senior research fellow of Hertford College, Oxford.
Michael Wooldridge is author of more than 300 academic publications.{{Google scholar id}}{{DBLP}}{{Official URL}}
= Editorial service =
- 2003–2009 co-editor-in-chief of the Journal Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
- 2006–2009 associate editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)
- 2009–2012 associate editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR)
Other editorships: Journal of Applied Logic, Journal of Logic and Computation, Journal of Applied Artificial Intelligence, and Computational Intelligence.
= Awards and honours =
He is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), a European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) Fellow, a Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) Fellow, and a British Computer Society (BCS) Fellow. In 2015, he was made Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow for his contributions to multi-agent systems and the formalisation of rational action in multi-agent environments.{{cite news|url=http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2015/fellows-2015|title=News release Association for Computing Machinery, December 8, 2015|access-date=3 September 2016|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151209221613/http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2015/fellows-2015|archivedate=9 December 2015}}
- 2023 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001tv7s|website=bbc.co.uk|publisher=BBC|title=How to Build an Intelligent Machine|last=Wooldridge|first=Michael|year=2023}}
- Wooldridge was the 300th guest on The Life Scientific interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili at the Royal Institution in London.
- 2021 Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence AAAI/EAAI Outstanding Educator Award{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
- 2020 BCS Lovelace Medal{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
- 2015 Elected an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow. For contributions to multi-agent systems and the formalisation of rational action in multi-agent environments.
- 2012–17 ERC Advanced Investigator Grant "Reasoning about Computational Economies (RACE)" (5-year €2m award){{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
- 2009 British Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (SSAISB) Fellow{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
- 2008 American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Fellow
- 2008 Influential Paper Award, Special Recognition from the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, for the paper Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice{{cite journal|last1=Wooldridge|first1=Michael|last2=Jennings|first2=Nicholas R.|title=Intelligent agents: theory and practice|journal=The Knowledge Engineering Review|volume=10|issue=2|year=2009|pages=115|issn=0269-8889|doi=10.1017/S0269888900008122|s2cid=221342993 |hdl=10044/1/35975|hdl-access=free}}
- 2007 European Association for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI) Fellow{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
- 2006 ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award. For significant and sustained contributions to the research on autonomous agents and multi agent systems. In particular, Dr. Wooldridge has made seminal contributions to the logical foundations of multi-agent systems, especially to formal theories of co-operation, teamwork and communication, computational complexity in multi-agent systems, and agent-oriented software engineering. {{cite web|url=http://sigai.acm.org/awards/autonomous_agents_award.html|title=Web page ACM SIGAI|website=sigai.acm.org|access-date=3 September 2016}}
=Publications=
- {{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/reasoningaboutra0000wool|title=Reasoning about Rational Agents|last=Wooldridge|first=Michael|date=2000|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=978-0262515566|location=|url-access=registration}}
- {{cite book|url=|title=An Introduction to Multi-agent Systems|last=Wooldridge|first=Michael |date=2002|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0471496915|location= |edition=first}}
- {{cite book|url=|title=Multiagent Systems for Manufacturing Control|last2=Jennings|first2=Nicholas R.|last3=Wooldridge|first3=Michael |date=2004|publisher=Springer-Verlag|isbn=978-3540209249|location= |last1=Bussmann|first1=Stefan}}
- {{cite book|url=|title=Programming Multi-agent Systems in AgentSpeak Using Jason|last2=Hübner|first2=Jomi Fred|last3=Wooldridge|first3=Michael |date=2007|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|isbn=978-0470029008|location= |last1=Bordini|first1=Rafael H.}}
- {{cite book|url=|title=An Introduction to Multi-agent Systems|last=Wooldridge|first=Michael |date=2009|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0470519462|location= |edition=second}}
- {{cite book|url=|title=Computational Aspects of Cooperative Game Theory|last2=Elkind|first2=Edith|author2-link= Edith Elkind |last3=Wooldridge|first3=Michael |date=2011|publisher=Morgan & Claypool Publishers|isbn=978-1608456529|location= |last1=Chalkiadakis|first1=Georgios}}
- {{cite book|url=|title=Principles of Automated Negotiation|last2=Kraus|first2=Sarit|last3=Wooldridge|first3=Michael |date=2014|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1107002548|location= |last1=Shaheen|first1=Fatima}}
- {{cite book |last=Wooldridge |first=Michael |title=Artificial Intelligence |date=22 March 2018 |publisher=Ladybird Books |location=London |isbn=978-0-7181-8875-7 |others=illus. Stephen Player }}
- Wooldridge, Michael (19 January 2020). A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence: What It Is, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going. New York: Flatiron Books. {{ISBN|9781250770745}}.
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