Jon Oberlander

Jon Reid Oberlander FRSE (16 June 1962 – 19 December 2017) was a British philosopher and cognitive scientist who was Professor of Epistemics at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. He received a BA in Philosophy from Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1983 and a PhD in Cognitive Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1987.^[1][2]

Jon Oberlander at the launch of the Take Tea With Turing digital anthology

Research

Oberlander described three main strands in his research:^[3] intelligent labelling; affect in communication (e.g., in research on personality types in emails with Alastair Gill); and multimodal reasoning and communication (e.g., in research with Keith Stenning on diagrammatic reasoning).

Honours

In March 2016 Oberlander was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Scotland's National Academy for science and letters, where he served as a member of their Young People's committee.^[4][5]

References

1. Wade, Mike (21 December 2017). "Artificial intelligence pioneer Jon Oberlander dies at 55". The Times. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
2. Quigley, Aaron (Spring 2018). "Obituary: Jon Oberlander". AI Matters. 4 (1). ACM: 23–24. doi:10.1145/3203247.3203253. S2CID 14015114. Retrieved 18 December 2018 – via sigai.acm.org.
3. See his web page.
4. . royalsoced.org.uk. 21 June 2016. Archived from the original on 8 October 2016. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
5. (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External links

• Jon Oberlander's homepage