David E Wilkins
Accomplished Senior Computer Scientist with 30+ years of success in AI research, value creation, and project/proposal management, working with university subcontractors.
Palm Springs, CA
Skills
- Proposal Management, Government Proposals
- Analyzing/Communicating Data
- Lifecycle Project Management
- Process Design & Planning
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Proposal Writing/Editing
- Complex Investigations
- AI Planning
Publications
- Papers and Books, with covers, abstracts, videos.
- Papers on Chess
- Chess Programming Wiki homepage, David E. Wilkins
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HAL's Legacy: 2001's Computer as Dream and Reality
"David E. Wilkins' comments on HAL's bad planning but impressive improvisation ..... makes for delightful reading"
--- Paul Preuss, San Jose Mercury News Book Reviews, 12 January 1997.
Golf Links/Stats; David's Personal Links
Work Experience
Senior Computer Scientist / SRI International AI Center
1979 - 2017
- Proposal Manager on several large winning bids (in a variety of disciplines), including DARPA's World Modelers, Machine Reading, and Bootstrapped Learning Programs and IARPA's BEST and FUSE programs.
- PI on several AI research projects, clients included DARPA, AFOSR, AFRL, ONR, and commercial companies.
- Published dozens of articles in top journals (e.g., AI Journal) and conferences (e.g., IJCAI and AAAI).
- Defined Proposal Best Practices for SRI's Information and Computer Sciences Division.
- Architect and principal coder (LISP) for SRI's hierarchical AI planning system and execution monitor. His 1988 book, Practical Planning: Extending the Classical AI Planning Paradigm, helped define the AI planning field and hierarchical planning techniques.
Senior Research Scientist / Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute
Melbourne, Australia
January-December 1988
- Established day-to-day office operations; interviewed and hired initial employees.
- Installed and managed the computer network.
- Wrote proposals and began execution of the first AI projects.
Teaching Assistant, Research Assistant, and PhD Student
Stanford University
1973-1979
Honors, etc.
- Elected a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) in 1998.
- Visiting Scholar at both Stanford University and the University of Melbourne.
- President of the Stanford Golf Club in 2005, and on the Board of Directors 2001-2006.
- Big Brother in Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area (1990s).
Education
Stanford University
1973-1979
PhD in Computer Science, AI specialization. Thesis adviser: Prof. John McCarthy, on wikipedia.
John McCarthy Memoir by Nils Nilsson (for National Acadamey of Sciences). From the memoir:
During the late 1960s and 1970s, SAIL [Stanford AI Lab] was a shining example of what a community of very bright faculty, students, and staff could accomplish when provided with adequate funding, powerful computers, peripheral equipment (such as display devices and printers) and associated software. ... The foundations for graphical user interfaces and printers, computer typesetting and publishing, speech recognition, computer vision and robotics, computer music, and other technologies that are now parts of our everyday lives all got their start at SAIL's facilities in the Stanford foothills.