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AI pioneer Donald Mitchie dies in automobile accident

AI pioneer Donald Mitchie dies in automobile accident

Tim Finin, 1:00pm 9 July 2007

Donald MitchieProfessor Donald Michie died in an automobile accident this past Saturday. He was 83. Mitchie was an early AI researcher who founded the University of Edinburgh’s Department of Machine Intelligence and Perception and was generally considered one of the preeminent European AI researchers in the 60s, 70s and 80s. See his obituary in the Telegraph for more information on his long and productive career. Mitchie was also known for his work developing code breaking hardware and concepts at Bletchley Park and for many other contributions to computer science, such as the memoization technique.

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