David Poole

David Poole is a professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia. He has a Ph.D. from the Australian National University. He is known for his work on assumption based reasoning, diagnosis, relational probabilistic models, combining logic and probability, algorithms for probabilistic inference, representations for automated decision making, probabilistic reasoning with ontologies, and semantic science. He is a co-author of a new AI textbook, Artificial Intelligence:...See more

David Poole is a professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia. He has a Ph.D. from the Australian National University. He is known for his work on assumption based reasoning, diagnosis, relational probabilistic models, combining logic and probability, algorithms for probabilistic inference, representations for automated decision making, probabilistic reasoning with ontologies, and semantic science. He is a co-author of a new AI textbook, Artificial Intelligence: Foundations of Computational Agents (Cambridge University Press, 2010), co-author of an older AI textbook, Computational Intelligence: A Logical Approach (Oxford University Press, 1998), co-chair of AAAI-10 (twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence), and co-editor of the Proceedings of the Tenth Conference in Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (Morgan Kaufmann, 1994). He is a former associate editor of the Journal of AI Research , and the AI Journal , and the editorial board of AI Magazine . He is the chair of the Association for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence and is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). He is the winner of the Canadian AI Association (CAIAC) 2013 Lifetime AchieveAUTHORS' BIOGRAPHIES 171 ment Award. In the 2014-15 academic year he was a Leverhulme Trust visiting professor at the University of Oxford. See less