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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - AAAI Distinguished Service Award For his outstanding service to artificial intelligence, including seminal scientific contributions in constraint-based representations and methods, with pioneering efforts in machine vision, robotics, and situated agents, and his sustained service in numerous key leadership roles, including the presidencies of AAAI, IJCAI, and the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence (CSCSI), amidst a lifetime of catalyzing and promoting AI research.
  • 2009 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 2008 - AAAI Distinguished Service Award For his contributions to the field of artificial intelligence through sustained service in numerous leadership roles in industry, government and professional societies, tirelessly instigating, facilitating and promoting successful AI research and development.
  • 1990 - Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)

Overview

Alan K. Mackworth is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and specializes in the field of Computer Science. Their research primarily focuses on Artificial Intelligence, with additional interests in Safety Research and Computer Networks and Communications.

The scientist's main areas of work include:

  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Law, AI, and Intellectual Property
  • Constraint Satisfaction and Optimization
  • AI-based Problem Solving and Planning

Alan K. Mackworth has contributed to numerous publications, including recent papers such as:

  • "Governing AI safety through independent audits," 2021, Nature Machine Intelligence
  • "AISpace2: An Interactive Visualization Tool for Learning and Teaching Artificial Intelligence," 2020, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mackworth include:

  • Gregory Falco
  • Ben Shneiderman
  • Julia Badger
  • Ryan Carrier
  • Anton Dahbura

Their work has appeared in publication venues such as:

  • Nature Machine Intelligence
  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Alan K. Mackworth has authored books published by Cambridge University Press, including the title "Artificial Intelligence" (2023).

Throughout their career, Alan K. Mackworth has received several awards:

  • AAAI Distinguished Service Award, 2010, for service in artificial intelligence and leadership roles including presidencies of AAAI, IJCAI, and the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence (CSCSI)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 2009
  • AAAI Distinguished Service Award, 2008, for contributions through leadership roles in industry, government, and professional societies
  • Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 1990

Best Publications

  • Consistency in Networks of Relations

    Alan K. Mackworth

  • A theory of multiscale, curvature-based shape representation for planar curves

    F. Mokhtarian;A.K. Mackworth

  • Scale-Based Description and Recognition of Planar Curves and Two-Dimensional Shapes

    Farzin Mokhtarian;Alan Mackworth

  • Computational Intelligence: A Logical Approach

    David Poole;Alan Mackworth;Randy Goebel

  • The complexity of some polynomial network consistency algorithms for constraint satisfaction problems

    Alan K. Mackworth;Eugene C. Freuder

  • Characterizing diagnoses and systems

    Johan de Kleer;Alan K. Mackworth;Raymond Reiter

  • Constraint Satisfaction

    Alan K. Mackworth

  • Evaluation of Gene-Finding Programs on Mammalian Sequences

    Sanja Rogic;Alan K. Mackworth;Francis B.F. Ouellette

  • Artificial Intelligence: Agents in the World: What Are Agents and How Can They Be Built?

    David L. Poole;Alan K. Mackworth

  • A logical framework for depiction and image interpretation

    Raymond Reiter;Alan K. Mackworth

  • On reading sketch maps

    Alan K. Mackworth

  • On Seeing Robots

    Alan K. Mackworth

  • Governing AI safety through independent audits

    Gregory Falco;Gregory Falco;Ben Shneiderman;Julia Badger;Ryan Carrier

  • Characterizing diagnoses

    Johan de Kleer;Alan K. Mackworth;Raymond Reiter

  • Characterizing Diagnoses

    Johan de Kleer;Alan K. Mackworth;Raymond Reiter

  • Artificial Intelligence

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  • Constraint-based reasoning

    Eugene C. Freuder;Alan K. Mackworth

  • The logic of constraint satisfaction

    Alan K. Mackworth

  • The logic of constraint satisfaction

    Alan K. Mackworth

  • Constraint Satisfaction: An Emerging Paradigm

    Eugene C. Freuder;Alan K. Mackworth

  • Hierarchical arc consistency: exploiting structured domains in constraint satisfaction problems

    Alan K. Mackworth;Jan A. Mulder;William S. Havens

  • Model-Driven Interpretation in Intelligent Vision Systems

    Alan K Mackworth

  • The complexity of constraint satisfaction revisited

    Alan K. Mackworth;Eugene C. Freuder

  • Parallel and distributed algorithms for finite constraint satisfaction problems

    Ying Zhang;A.K. Mackworth

  • Interpreting pictures of polyhedral scenes

    Alan K. Mackworth

Frequent Co-Authors

David Poole
David Poole University of British Columbia
Eugene C. Freuder
Eugene C. Freuder University College Cork
James J. Little
James J. Little University of British Columbia
Alex Mihailidis
Alex Mihailidis University of Toronto
Raymond Reiter
Raymond Reiter University of Toronto
Peter D. Lawrence
Peter D. Lawrence University of British Columbia
Johan de Kleer
Johan de Kleer Palo Alto Research Center
Giuseppe Carenini
Giuseppe Carenini University of British Columbia
Cristina Conati
Cristina Conati University of British Columbia
Sohrab P. Shah
Sohrab P. Shah Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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