b. 1966
Michael Wooldridge is a British computer scientist specializing in multi-agent systems, game theory, and artificial intelligence. He is Head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a leading figure in formal approaches to rational agency and logics for multi-agent reasoning.
Authored foundational textbook 'An Introduction to MultiAgent Systems'
Developed formal logics for reasoning about rational agents and cooperation
Advanced game-theoretic analysis of sequential play and plausibility updates
Served as President of the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
Elected Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and AAAI