To members and friends of SGAI
Members of the SGAI committee were shocked to hear of the
death of our Treasurer, Dr. Rob Milne, on Everest on Sunday.
As well as being an Artificial Intelligence expert, Rob was a
highly skilled climber whose ambition was to climb the 'seven
summits' – the highest mountain on each of the seven continents.
Everest was the last one and he was within 1200 feet of the summit
when he suffered a heart attack.
Rob was a committee member of SGAI for over 15 years and
played a major role in the development of the group. He was a
leading organiser for many of our annual conferences and was
the driving force behind bringing the IJCAI world AI conference
to Britain this year for the first time in over 30 years. He was a
past President of ECCAI, the European Co-ordinating Committee on
Artificial Intelligence, as well as the Managing Director of
Sermatech
Intelligent Applications, a leading AI software company.
We have lost a good friend as well as a highly skilled and valued
colleague. He will be greatly missed.
Obituary: The Herald 7 June 2005
http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/40694.html
Max Bramer
Chairman, BCS Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence
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