Austin Tate is Emeritus Professor[2] of Knowledge-based systems in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.

[3] From 1985 to 2019 he was Director of AIAI (Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute) in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.

He is known for his contributions to AI Planning, applications of Artificial Intelligence, and work on collaborative systems in Virtual Worlds.

[4] He completed his postgraduate study in Machine Intelligence at University of Edinburgh, supervised by Donald Michie, 1972-1975 and a Master of Science degree in e-Learning at the University of Edinburgh, 2011-2012.

[1] Tate's awards and honours include: He was married in 1975 to Margaret (née Mowbray) at Knottingley, West Yorkshire, England.