Yorick A. Wilks
Also known as Yorick Wilks
Yorick A. Wilks researched natural-language processing, AI and cognitive science. His career connected language understanding with knowledge representation and reasoning. Wilks led the Computing Research Laboratory at New Mexico State from 1985. The group studied language understanding, connectionism, knowledge representation, vision and robotics. He joined Sheffield as an AI professor and founded its Natural Language Processing Group in 1993. He became computer-science department head in 1998. He transferred group leadership to Rob Gaizauskas in 2008 and retired fully from Sheffield by 2010. He later held research affiliations at the Oxford Internet Institute and IHMC.
- Works
- 526
- Citations
- 9,374
- h-index
- 50
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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1985
New Mexico research laboratory
Wilks led the Computing Research Laboratory at New Mexico State from 1985. The group studied language understanding, connectionism, knowledge representation, vision and robotics.
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1993–1998
Sheffield language research
He joined Sheffield as an AI professor and founded its Natural Language Processing Group in 1993. He became computer-science department head in 1998.
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2008–2010
A later research phase
He transferred group leadership to Rob Gaizauskas in 2008 and retired fully from Sheffield by 2010. He later held research affiliations at the Oxford Internet Institute and IHMC.
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2023
A historical language-research career
He died on 14 April 2023. He continued AI and language research after retirement.
Sources and credits
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