Yorick Wilks works as a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sheffield. There he directs the Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing. He received his MA and PhD (1968) from Pembroke College, Cambridge. He has also taught or researched at Stanford, Edinburgh, Geneva, Essex and New Mexico State Universities. His interests are artificial intelligence and the computer processing of language, knowledge and belief.
He was an early pioneer in meaning-based approaches to the understanding of natural language content by computers, and he has won many prizes, specially during this last years. Here we have some of that prizes or awards:
- 1991 Elected Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
- 1998 Elected Fellow of European Association for Artificial Intelligence.
- 2004 Elected to UK Computing Research Council.
- 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award. (Columbus).
- 2008 Zampolli Prize. (Morocco).
References:
- Yorick Wilks. In Oxford Internet Institute. Retrieved 20:44, March 4, 2009, from http://people.oii.ox.ac.uk/yorick/
- Yorick Wilks. In The University of Sheffield. Retrieved 20:31, March 4, 2009, from http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~yorick/cv.html
- Yorick Wilks. Yorick Wilks’s profile. Retrieved 9th March, 2009 from http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~yorick/
