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Alan Mackworth

AI Researcher at UBC Computer Science

Alan Mackworth Alan Mackworth is Professor Emeritus at UBC Computer Science and one of Canada's foundational AI researchers, with landmark contributions to constraint satisfaction and robotics dating back to the 1970s. He is a past president of AAAI, former Canada Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence (2001 to 2014), and is widely credited as the founding father of RoboCup. In February 2026 he and David Poole...

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Roles

  • AI Researcher
  • Professor Emeritus

Organizations

  • UBC Computer Science

Locations

  • Vancouver, BC

Tags

  • ai-research
  • ubc
  • vancouver