Michie, Donald

Michie, Donald
▪ 2008

      British computer scientist

born Nov. 11, 1923, Rangoon, Burma [Yangon, Myanmar]

died July 7, 2007, near London, Eng.
was an early theorist into the concept of artificial intelligence (AI) and founding head (1966) of the University of Edinburgh's department of machine intelligence and perception, where he oversaw the development and construction of FREDDY, a breakthrough in computer-directed robotics that successfully integrated perception, learned experience, and action. Michie studied at Rugby School and won a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford, but he took a job as a cryptographer at the World War II government research centre at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, where Alan Turing's ideas on heuristic problem solving inspired his own studies into machine intelligence. After the war Michie returned to Oxford, receiving an M.A. (1949) in physiology and a Ph.D. (1953) in mammalian genetics. He did embryology research (1952–58) at University College, London, with his then wife, Anne McLaren (McLaren, Dame Anne Laura ). In 1958 Michie moved to the University of Edinburgh, where he lectured on surgical science until his interest in computers prevailed, and in 1967 the university named him professor of machine intelligence. After retiring in 1984, he founded the Turing Institute in Glasgow, Scot., where he remained until 1994. Although Michie and McLaren were divorced in 1959, they stayed friends; the two were driving together from Cambridge to London when they were both killed in an automobile accident.

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