Tim Finin
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| Born | August 4, 1949 |
| Residence | Maryland, USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Computer Science Electrical Engineering |
| Institutions | UMBC Unisys University of Pennsylvania |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Doctoral advisor | David Waltz |
Tim Finin (born 1949 in Walworth, Wisconsin) is a 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.
Finin holds degrees from MIT and the University of Illinois. Prior to joining the UMBC, he held positions at Unisys, the University of Pennsylvania, and the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is the author of more than 300 refereed publications and has received research grants and contracts from a variety of sources.
He has been an organizer of several major conferences, including the IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Applications, ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, ACM Autonomous Agents conference, ACM Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing and International Semantic Web Conference. He is an editor in chief of the Journal of Web Semantics and on the editorial board of several other journals. Finin is a former AAAI councilor and board member of the CRA.
In 2009 the IEEE Computer Society awarded him a Technical Achievement "for pioneering contributions to distributed intelligent systems".[1]
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- ^ 2009 Technical Achievement Award, retrieved 2010-04-03.
