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Şakir Kocabaş:
Date & Place of Birth : 08 September 1945, Istanbul

Education:Degree / Years /UniversityAssoc. Prof.1994Istanbul Tecnical University,Dept. of Space Sciences and Tech.

Ph.D. (Artificial Intelligence)1985-90 King's College London Dept. of Information Engineering
Msc. (Chem. Engineering)1967-70 Istanbul Technical UniversityFaculty of Chem. Engineering
Bsc. (Chem. Engineering)1963-67 Istanbul Technical University

Academic Experience:- Research experience in Artificial Intelligence (Knowledge Organisation and Representation, Machine Learning and Scientific Discovery)- Project experience in Real-Time Simulation in Artificial Intelligence. - Programming experience in Prolog.

Career:91- Lecturer at Istanbul Technical University, teaching AI-1 and AI-2 (graduate courses), Logic Programming, and Physics (undergraduate courses).

Research Project: Automated fomulation of reactions and reaction pathways in nuclear astrophysics.

91-98 Head of the Artificial Intelligence Department, Marmara Research Center (MRC), 41470 Gebze, Turkey. (Took active part in founding the Artificial Intelligence Department at MRC in 1991.)

Projects led as Project Manager at MRC:
1) EUCLID RTP 11.3 WP 2 (1993-97). This project involved the use of AI techniques in real-time simulation, and received the 1997 successful project award by MRC (June 6, 1998).
2) EUCLID RTP 11.7 (1996-97). Completed successfully.
3) Research on the Computational Modeling of Scientific Discovery. (Conference papers published.)
4) Cyrillic Optical Character Recognition. (Prototype developed.)

90-91 Private research on discoveries in Particle Physics and Oxide Superconductivity.

85-90 Ph.D. study at King's College, London University. Research title: "Functional Categorization of Knowledge: Applications in Modeling Scientific Research and Discovery."

71-85 Various R&D and administrative work in chemical industry in Turkey and UK.

Organizational Memberships:
- American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). (Since 1991)
-British Computer Society, Specialist Group on Expert Systems (BCS-SGES). (1989-1996)- The Society for Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB). (Since 1989).

Community Activities:1) Organising and participating in various philosophical symposia and seminars in London, 1985-1990; and in Istanbul, 1992 to date.2) Participating in the annual Turkish AI and NN (TAINN) symposia as a member of the organising comittee.3) Speaking, by invitation, on the national radio and TV programmes on philosophical, scientific and cultural matters.

Academic Interests: - Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Discovery, and Philosophy and History of Science.

Main Philosophical Publications:1. Kocabas, S. (1984). "İfadelerin Gramatik Ayirimi" (in Turkish, "Grammatical Classification of Propositions".) Ekin Yayinlari: Istanbul, 222 pp. [This work received the "Thought and Philosophy" award of the Turkish Writers Association in 1985].
2. Kocabas, S. (1997). "Islam'da Bilginin Temelleri" (in Turkish, "Foundations of Knowledge in Islam".) İz Yayincilik: Istanbul, 140 pp. [This book received the "Research" award of the Turkish Writers Association in 1997].