Tim Finin

Tim Finin
Born (1949-08-04) August 4, 1949
OccupationProfessor
Known forKQML, Swoogle
AwardsACM Fellow, AAAI Fellow, FIPA Fellow
Academic background
EducationMIT, University of Illinois
Alma materUniversity of Illinois
ThesisThe Semantic Interpretation of Compound Nominals (1980)
David Waltz
Academic work
EraAnthropocene
DisciplineComputer science
Sub-discipline
Artificial intelligence, Semantic web, Natural language processing, Social media, Mobile computing
InstitutionsUMBC, Unisys, University of Pennsylvania, MIT, JHU
Notable ideas
Agent Communications Language
Websiteumbc.edu/~finin
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Timothy Wilking Finin (born August 4, 1949) is an Emeritus Professor in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering department and director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). His research has focused on the applications of artificial intelligence to problems in information systems and has included contributions to natural language processing, expert systems, the theory and applications of multiagent systems, the semantic web, and mobile computing.