Alan Mackworth

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Alan Mackworth is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia where he holds a Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence and is the founding director of the UBC Laboratory for Computational Intelligence. He is Past President of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

Mackworth was educated at University of Toronto (B.A.Sc.), Harvard University (A.M.) and University of Sussex (D.Phil.). He works on constraint-based computational intelligence with applications in computer vision, robotics and situated agents. He has worked in the areas of constraint satisfaction, robot soccer and constraint-based agents.^[who?] He has published about 100 scientific papers, and co-authored the text Computational Intelligence: A Logical Approach.

He was Conference Chair of IJCAI-85 and President and Trustee of IJCAI Inc.; he is on the IJCAI Executive Committee. He is on the editorial boards of Artificial Intelligence, Computational Intelligence and Constraints. He was VP and President of the Canadian Society for Computational Studies of Intelligence (CSCSI). He is Past President of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). He has received the ITAC/NSERC Award for Academic Excellence, the Killam Research Prize and the CSCSI Distinguished Service Award. He served as the founding Director of the UBC Laboratory for Computational Intelligence. He is a Fellow of AAAI and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.