Tim Finin
Tim Finin | |
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Tim Finin in 2007 | |
| Born | August 4, 1949 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Known for | KQML, Swoogle |
| Awards | ACM Fellow, AAAI Fellow |
| Academic background | |
| Education | MIT, University of Illinois |
| Alma mater | University of Illinois |
| Thesis | The Semantic Interpretation of Compound Nominals (1980) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Waltz |
| Academic work | |
| Era | Anthropocene |
| Discipline | Computer science |
| Sub-discipline | Artificial intelligence, Semantic web, Natural language processing, Social media, Mobile computing |
| Institutions | UMBC, Unisys, University of Pennsylvania, MIT, JHU |
| Notable ideas | Agent Communications Language |
| Website | umbc |
Timothy Wilking Finin (born August 4, 1949) is the Willard and Lillian Hackerman Chair in Engineering and a retired Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). His research has focused on the applications of artificial intelligence to problems in information systems and has included contributions to natural language processing, expert systems, the theory and applications of multiagent systems, the semantic web, and mobile computing.