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.