Yorick Wilks

Yorick Wilks is Emeritus Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Sheffield, Visiting Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Gresham College, Senior Scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Learning, and a Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion. He has written or edited ten books on Artificial Intelligence; is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the US and European Societies for Artificial Intelligence. In 2008 he was awarded the EU’s Zampolli Prize and the Association for Computational Linguistics’ Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2009, he was awarded the British Computer Society’s Lovelace Medal. His last book (2019) is Artificial Intelligence: Modern Magic or Dangerous Future?