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Robin Popplestone was born on 9 December, 1938 in Bristol, England, UK, is an A british computer scientist. Discover Robin Popplestone's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 65 years old?

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Age 65 years old
Zodiac Sign Sagittarius
Born 9 December, 1938
Birthday 9 December
Birthplace Bristol, England, UK
Date of death 14 April, 2004
Died Place Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Nationality Bristol

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1938

Robin John Popplestone (9 December 1938 in Bristol – 14 April 2004 in Glasgow) was a pioneer in the fields of machine intelligence and robotics.

He is known for developing the COWSEL and POP programming languages, and for his work on Freddy II with Pat Ambler at the University of Edinburgh Artificial Intelligence laboratory.

Robin Popplestone was born in Bristol in 1938, but after WWII his family moved to Belfast.

1960

He received an honours degree in mathematics from Queen's University Belfast in 1960.

He started a PhD at Manchester University before moving to Leeds University.

His project was to develop a program for automated theorem proving, but he got caught up in using the university computer to design a boat.

He built the boat and set sail for the University of Edinburgh, where he had been offered a research position.

A storm hit while crossing the North Sea, and the boat sank.

A widely believed story about Popplestone was that he never completed his PhD in mathematics because he lost his thesis manuscript in the boat, although Popplestone refused to corroborate this.

1965

The early part of his professional career was spent at the University of Edinburgh (1965-1985) and the later part at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1985-2001).

1990

In 1990, he was elected a Founding Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence.

2001

Due to illness, he retired in 2001 to the Glasgow area.

2004

He died in 2004 after a 10-year illness with prostate cancer.