Name Jon Oberlander | ||
Education University of Edinburgh | ||
Jon Oberlander Memorial Lecture | Prof. J.P. de Ruiter - Let Robots be Robots
Jon Oberlander FRSE (born 16 June 1962) is 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.
Contents
Jon lists three main strands to his research: 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 already serves as a member of their Young People's committee.
References
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