Austin Tate
Austin Tate’s career follows the development of AI planners into tools for managing tasks and coordinating activity. His work spans several generations of planning systems. Tate worked on Traverser, Interplan, and Nonlin between 1971 and 1983. Tate worked on O-Plan from 1983 to 1999. His research includes plan representation, execution support, and replanning.
- Works
- 329
- Citations
- 4,271
- h-index
- 30
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1971–1983
Early planners
Tate worked on Traverser, Interplan, and Nonlin between 1971 and 1983.
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1983–1999
O-Plan
Tate worked on O-Plan from 1983 to 1999. His research includes plan representation, execution support, and replanning.
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1985–2019
An applied AI institute
Tate directed Edinburgh’s Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute from 1985 to 2019.
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1993
Research recognition
AAAI elected Austin Tate as a Fellow in 1993.
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From 2000
Planning and activity support
Tate began work on I-X in 2000. His I-X work involved intelligent planning and execution agent technology, alongside projects for inter-agent collaboration.
Sources and credits
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