Jon Oberlander

Jon Oberlander FRSE (born 16 June 1962) is 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.

Jon lists three main strands to his research:[1] 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 already serves as a member of their Young People's committee.[2][3]

References

  1. ↑ See his web page.
  2. ↑ https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/1200_2016ElectedFellows.html
  3. ↑ https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/committees/current_committee_members_web.pdf

External links

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