David E. Wilkins, SRI International Papers on Chess by David E. Wilkins Computational Intelligence

David E. Wilkins is a graduate of Iowa State University, the University of Essex, and Stanford University, where his dissertation centered on a chess program that used knowledge to replace and control search. Since then he has been at the SRI International AI Center, where he is currently a senior computer scientist; he has also been a visiting scholar at both Stanford University and Melbourne University. His research has centered on planning and reasoning about actions, knowledge representation, and the design and implementation of artificial intelligence systems, including SIPE-2, a state-of-the-art AI planner. He was instrumental in initiating the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute, where he led a project that successfully applied SIPE-2 to the scheduling of production lines in a real-world manufacturing environment. He has published Practical Planning: Extending the Classical AI Planning Paradigm and written chapters in several others, including Intelligent Scheduling and Chess Skill in Man and Machine. Recently, he led a project to develop Cypress, a system for creating taskable, reactive agents. Cypress integrates AI technologies in planning and reactive control to provide automated asynchronous dynamic replanning. Wilkins is a member of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence and sits on the editorial board of Computational Intelligence.