Yorick Wilks

Yorick Wilks
Born	(1939-10-27)27 October 1939 Buckinghamshire, England
Died	14 April 2023(2023-04-14) (aged 83)
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Known for	General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE)
Title	Director of Artificial Intelligence at WiredVibe
Awards	Loebner Prize (1997); The biennial Antonio Zampolli Prize by the European Language Development Association at LREC (2008); The Lifetime Achievement Award at the ACL (2008); The British Computer Society's Lovelace Medal (2009)
Scientific career
Fields	Artificial Intelligence Natural language processing
Institutions	University of Sheffield University of Oxford
Thesis	Argument and proof in metaphysics from an empirical point of view (1968)
Doctoral advisor	R. B. Braithwaite
Website	staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/Y.Wilks

Yorick Alexander Wilks FBCS (27 October 1939 – 14 April 2023) was a British computer scientist. He was an emeritus professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Sheffield, visiting professor of artificial intelligence at Gresham College (a post created especially for him), senior research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, senior scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, and a member of the Epiphany Philosophers.

In February 2023, Wilks joined WiredVibe as Director of Artificial Intelligence and Board Member to help commercialise his previous ideas and research.^[1]