Alistair D.C. Holden
Alistair D.C. Holden was a University of Washington electrical engineering professor who helped organize the first large conference devoted exclusively to artificial intelligence. He served as an IJCAI trustee from 1968 to 1969 and as general chair of IJCAI-69. His research included a 1988 paper on symbolic-neural control and 1991 papers on neural-net control and hints for complex systems. He died in 1999.
Timeline
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1968–1969
An IJCAI trustee
He serves as an IJCAI trustee from 1968 to 1969 and as general chair of IJCAI-69.
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1969
Organizing IJCAI-69
He organizes IJCAI-69 with Donald E. Walker in Washington, DC, in May 1969. It is the first large conference devoted exclusively to artificial intelligence.
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1980s
Professor at Washington
In the 1980s, he is a University of Washington professor in electrical engineering.
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1988
A symbolic-neural control method
In 1988, he coauthors “A symbolic-neural method for solving control problems” with Steven C. Suddarth and Stewart A. Sutton.
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1991
Neural control systems
In 1991, he coauthors “Combined Neural-Net/Knowledge-Based Adaptive Systems for Large Scale Dynamic Control” with Steven C. Suddarth.
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1991
Developing complex systems
In 1991, he coauthors “Symbolic-Neural Systems and the Use of Hints for Developing Complex Systems” with Steven C. Suddarth.
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1999
Death in 1999
He dies in 1999.
Most-cited works
- Symbolic-neural systems and the use of hints for developing complex systems
- The VirBot: a virtual reality robot driven with multimodal commands
- Computer recognition of linguistic stress patterns in connected speech
- The symbolic-neural method for creating models and control behaviors from examples
- "A new method for accurate analysis of voiced speech"
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Sources and credits
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