Tim Finin
Tim Finin | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 4, 1949 |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Known for | KQML, Swoogle |
| Awards | ACM Fellow, AAAI Fellow, FIPA Fellow |
| Academic background | |
| Education | MIT, University of Illinois |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois |
| Thesis | The Semantic Interpretation of Compound Nominals (1980) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Waltz |
| Academic work | |
| Era | Anthropocene |
| Discipline | Computer science |
| Sub-discipline | Artificial intelligence, Semantic web, Natural language processing, Social media, Mobile computing |
| Institutions | UMBC, Unisys, University of Pennsylvania, MIT, JHU |
| Notable ideas | Agent Communications Language |
| Website | umbc |
Timothy Wilking Finin (born August 4, 1949) is an Emeritus Research Professor in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering department and director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). His research has focused on the applications of artificial intelligence to problems in information systems and has included contributions to natural language processing, expert systems, the theory and applications of multiagent systems, the semantic web, and mobile computing.