Robin John Popplestone, born December 9, 1938 in Bristol and died April 14, 2004 in Glasgow, was a pioneer in the fields of machine intelligence and robotics. He is known for developing the POP programming languages COWSEL, later renamed POP-1, POP-2 with Rod Burstall, and POP-11, along with the related multi-language integrated development environment Poplog, and for his work on the Freddy II robot with Pat Ambler at the University of Edinburgh Artificial Intelligence laboratory.
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Robin John Popplestone (9 December 1938 in Bristol, 14 April 2004 in Glasgow) was a pioneer in the fields of machine intelligence and robotics.
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