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Dr Yorick Wilks

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Research Associate, Oxford Internet Institute

Oxford Internet Institute

MA, PhD (Cantab)

Yorick Wilks is an emeritus Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Sheffield, a research associate of the Oxford Internet Institute and a Senior Research Scientist at the Florida Institute of Human and Machine Cognition. He received his MA and PhD (1968) from Pembroke College, Cambridge. He has also taught or researched at Stanford, Edinburgh, Geneva, and Essex Universities. His interests are artificial intelligence and the computer processing of language, knowledge and belief, especially as applied to the future of the Internet, the Semantic Web and the possibility of Companion-like machine interfaces. His more recent books include: Artificial Intelligence: Modern Magic or Dangerous Future? (Icon Books, 2019), Natural language Processing and the Semantic Web (with Christopher Brewster, Now Books, 2009), Machine Translation – how far can it go (Springer, 2009), Artificial Believers (Erlbaum 1991), Electric Words (MIT, 1996) and Machine Conversations (Kluwer, 2001), and a volume in 2009 from John Benjamins: ‘Artificial Companions in Society: scientific, economic, psychological and philosophical perspectives’.