Bernard Meltzer (born in 1916 in South Africa; died on 4 July 2008) was a British computer scientist, who with Donald Michie was one of the main founders of research on artificial intelligence at the University of Edinburgh.
In 1941 he enlisted in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve and from 1943 taught radar and electronics to military personnel at the University of Aberdeen.
[1] In 1955 he became a lecturer and later a reader in the electrical engineering department of the University of Edinburgh, doing research in electronics (both semiconductors and tubes).
1964/65 he worked at the Atlas Computer Laboratory of the Science Research Council and then founded the Metamathematics Unit at the University of Edinburgh.
Edinburgh became a center of artificial intelligence under him and Donald Michie, with scientists such as Robert Kowalski (who was one of the founders of logic programming in the early 1970s) and Alan Bundy.