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I graduated in computer science from the
University of York in 1984,
and since then I've worked on a variety of AI research projects both
here at HP Labs (I joined in 1988) and elsewhere.
From 1996 onwards, my main interest has been in software agents in general, and
personal agents and user-agent interaction in particular. I also worked on the FIPA '98
standard, though organisational changes at HP meant that I did not work on later versions of the FIPA specs.
HP sponsored my PhD at the University of Liverpool,
where my
supervisor was Prof Mike Wooldridge.
My PhD research started out with a goal to
probe fairly deeply into user experiences of interacting with autonomous agents.
However, I found a lack of practical programming tools for developers to build
interesting deliberative (BDI) agents, and diverted my research into looking
at architectures for building practical deliberative agents for the Semantic Web.
I successfully defended my thesis in 2006.
Since 2001, I have been contributing to the
Semantic Web programme at HP Labs Bristol.
In particular, I developed and continue to support the ontology API
for Jena, and various
ancillary tools for the Jena platform.
Program committees
I have served, or have agreed to serve, as a member of the following workshop or conference program committees:
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005 and older
I was also the conference chair for the First Jena User Conference.
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