Tim Finin

Timothy Wilking Finin (born August 4, 1949) is the Willard and Lillian Hackerman Chair in Engineering and is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). His research has focused on the applications of artificial intelligence to problems in information systems and has included contributions to natural language processing, expert systems, the theory and applications of multiagent systems, the semantic web, and mobile computing.

Tim Finin in 2007

Quotes

• Wikidata is one of the best options for an open, common knowledge graph of background information for use in an application or AI system. SPARQL is the most common way to access the data and here's one resource to get help in learning how to use it effectively.
  • Thoughts on Wikidata from a September 3, 2020 tweet.
• My ultimate goal is to help figure out how to create truly intelligent machines and it’s a goal I will never achieve in my lifetime.
• The most important development in information technology in the last 25 or 50 years has been the world wide web.
• The working hypothesis that I accepted in college was that animals and people are machines... What I have always found interesting since I was an Undergraduate was the idea that we could make machines as smart as people.
• In the course of my professional career, I have seen a lot of amazing things come to fruition in the area of intelligent systems.
  • from a University of Maryland, Baltimore County Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering bio page