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MARK S. FOX
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Computer Science Senior Fellow, Global Cities Institute
Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto 40 St. George St., Rm 8114, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G8 Canada tel: +1-416-978-6823 fax: +1-416-971-2479 internet: msf@eil.utoronto.ca
Dr. Fox received his BSc in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in
1975 and his PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1983. In
1979 he was a founding member of the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon
University as well as the founding Director of the Intelligent Systems
Laboratory within the Institute. He co-founded Carnegie Group Inc. in 1984, a
software company that specialized in knowledge-based systems for solving
engineering, manufacturing, and telecommunications problems, and was its
Vice-President of Engineering and President/CEO. Carnegie Mellon University
appointed him Associate Professor of Computer Science and Robotics in 1987 (with
tenure in 1991). In 1988 he was the founding Director of the Center for
Integrated Manufacturing Decision Systems at Carnegie Mellon. In 1991, Dr. Fox
returned to the University of Toronto where he was appointed the NSERC Research
Chairholder in Enterprise Integration and Professor of Industrial Engineering
and Computer Science. In 1992, he was appointed Director of the Collaborative
Program in Integrated Manufacturing. In 1993, Dr. Fox co-founded and was CEO
Novator Systems Ltd., a pioneer in E-Retail software and services.
Dr. Fox's research led to the creation of the field of Constraint-Directed Scheduling within Artificial Intelligence, and several commercially successful scheduling systems and companies. He also pioneered the application of Artificial Intelligence to project management, simulation, and material design. He was the designer of one of the first commercial industrial applications of expert systems: PDS/GENAID, a steam turbine and generator diagnostic system for Westinghouse, which was a recipient of the IR100 in 1985 and is still in commercial use at Siemens. He was the co-creator of the Knowledge Representation SRL from which Knowledge Craft™ and ROCK™, commercial knowledge engineering tools, were derived, and KBS from which several commercial knowledge based simulation tools were derived. His current research focuses on the ontologies, common sense reasoning and their application to Smart Cities.
Dr. Fox was elected a Fellow of Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 1991, a Joint Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and PRECARN in 1992, and a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada in 2009. He is a past AAAI councillor, and a member of ACM and IEEE. Dr. Fox has published over 150 papers.
