Irish researcher addresses world’s most prestigious conference on artificial intelligence
Science Foundation Ireland-funded researcher becomes first ever Irish researcher to speak at AAAI.
Dr Barry O'Sullivan, a Science Foundation Ireland Principal Investigator based at University College Cork (UCC) has this month become the first Irish researcher to address the renowned AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, USA (July 11th-15th 2010).
AAAI is a non-profit scientific society devoted to advancing the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behaviour and their embodiment in machines. AAAI also aims to increase public understanding of artificial intelligence, improve the teaching and training of Artificial Intelligence practitioners, and provide guidance for research planners and funders concerning the importance and potential of current AI developments and future directions.
Dr O’Sullivan address, entitled ‘Constraint Programming and Artificial Intelligence: Challenges, Applications and Opportunities’, dealt with constraint programming, a powerful tool widely used to support industrial decision-making, as well as being used as a component in various intelligent systems.
Speaking on the occasion of his address, Dr O’Sullivan said “It is an honour to be invited to address a global conference of such prestige. Following in the footsteps of such esteemed speakers as Tim Berners-Lee (Director, World Wide Web Consortium), Marvin Minsky (MIT) and Peter Norvig (Director of Search Quality, Google) is a source of immense personal pride, but also is indicative of the high quality research taking place in Ireland.”
Biography
Barry O'Sullivan is a senior lecturer in constraints at the Department of Computer Science at University College Cork in Ireland. He is the associate director of the Cork Constraint Computation Centre, Science Foundation Ireland principal investigator, president of the Association for Constraint Programming, chairman of the Artificial Intelligence Association of Ireland, coordinator of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) Working Group on Constraints, and a member of the Executive Council of the Management Science Society of Ireland. His research interests include real-world applications of artificial intelligence, constraint programming and optimization technologies.
