Patrick J. Hayes
Beckman Institute
University of Illinois
Patrick John Hayes read math at Cambridge, graduating in 1965 and joined
the new Machine Intelligence program at Edinburgh. He spent the summers of
1969 and 1971 at the Stanford AI laboratory. In 1972 he became a professor
at Essex University, spending 1977 as Professeur Invite at the University
of Geneva. He was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences at Stanford during 1979, and in 1981 emigrated to the
USA, taking up a Luce Chair at the University of Rochester, creating one of
the first interdisciplinary Cognitive Science programs and organized the
first conference on cognitive science curricula. He is now a Consulting
Professor in Computer Science at Stanford and a Visiting Professor at the
Beckman Institute in Urbana, IL. Pat has been secretary of AISB, chairman
and trustee of IJCAI, a governor of the Cognitive Science society and
president of AAAI.