Internationally renowned computer scientist Alan Mackworth is Canada's leading figure in the field of artificial intelligence. His pioneering development of constraint satisfaction algorithms for applications such as vision, scheduling, and design have opened up a new discipline known as constraint programming.

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MACKWORTH, Alan K. –Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia
Internationally renowned computer scientist Alan Mackworth is Canada's leading figure in the field of artificial intelligence. His work in AI and robotics concentrates on constraint-based knowledge representations. His pioneering development of constraint satisfaction algorithms for applications such as vision, scheduling, and design have opened up a new discipline known as constraint programming. For introducing the first soccer-playing robots, Mackworth is globally recognized as the founding father of the famous robot soccer challenge RoboCup, stimulating an enormous range of research in perceptually-guided robotics. His current work on constraint nets and constraint-based agent architectures strongly influences computational intelligence, control theory, and hybrid systems.