Stephen Muggleton

Stephen Muggleton (born December 6, 1959) is Head of the Computational Bioinformatics Laboratory at Imperial College London. He received his BSc in Computer Science (1982) and PhD in Artificial Intelligence (1986, supervised by Donald Michie) from the University of Edinburgh. He went on to work as a post-doctoral researcher at the Turing Institute in Glasgow (1987-1991) and later an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow at Oxford University Computing Laboratory (1992-1997). From 1997-2001 he held the Chair of Machine Learning at the University of York and from 2001-2006 the EPSRC Chair of Computational Bioinformatics at Imperial College in London. He is best for known for founding the field of Inductive Logic Programming. In this field he has made key contributions to theory (he introduced predicate invention, inverse entailment and stochastic logic programs), systems development (he developed the systems Duce, Golem and Progol) and applications (especially biological prediction tasks).

He is currently working on an “artificial scientist” that would be capable of combining inductive logic with probabilistic reasoning. [ [http://economist.com/science/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=9468793 Economist.com ] ]

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* [http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~shm Academic home page]