Yorick Alexander Wilks was a British computer scientist and emeritus professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Sheffield who also held posts as visiting professor of artificial intelligence at Gresham College, senior research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute and senior scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. In February 2023 he joined the company WiredVibe as director of AI and a board member to help commercialize his earlier research, a role he held until his death shortly before the company was acquired by AKY X.
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What role did Yorick Wilks take when he moved to the University of Sheffield?
In 1993 he took the Sheffield chair of artificial intelligence and became founding director of its Institute of Language Speech and Hearing.
In 1993 Yorick Wilks took up a chair of artificial intelligence at the University of Sheffield in England. He also became the founding director of its Institute of Language, Speech and Hearing, known as ILASH.
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Yorick Alexander Wilks FBCS (27 October 1939
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Yorick Alexander Wilks FBCS (27 October 1939
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Yorick Alexander Wilks FBCS (27 October 1939 - 14 April 2023) was a British computer scientist.
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was a British computer scientist
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