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Rob Milne

Born Libby, Montana 12 July 1956 - 5 June 2005, Mount Everest.

born in Montana, grew up in Colorado, University in Boston, then PhD in Edinburgh. after that I worked 3 years in Dayton and 1 year in DC before moving back to Scotland 18 years ago. I'm a dual national, UK and USA. But Scotland is really my home now.

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, US Air Force Institute of Technology 1982-85; chief scientist, US Army Artificial Intelligence Centre 1985-86; managing director, Intelligent Applications, 1986-2005; FRSE 2003; married (one son, one daughter); died Mt Everest 5 June 2005.

Software Engineer,  Livingston, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

US Army Scholarship to MIT, graduated in 1978 and taught rock climbing class.

PHD in 1983

After PhD returned to the US

Dr Milne, who has already climbed Carstensz Pyramid (Oceania) Vinson Massif (Antarctica), Elbrus (Europe), Kilimanjaro (Africa), Denali (North America) and Aconcagua (South America),

IM-PACs Software

will be the first mountaineer to use the IM-PACs (intelligent messaging, planning and collaboration) system. The technology, developed at the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute in the University of Edinburgh’s School of Informatics, has been designed to provide computer support to people and teams performing a range of tasks – not just expedition teams operating in extreme conditions, but also key personnel involved in planning and rescue services responding rapidly to emergencies.

awards

Death

Dr Milne was carrying a flag for Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University, which had given him an honorary degree.

Had a heart attack and died at 8450 on Mount Everest.

IM-PACs is funded by Scottish Enterprise, the European Research Development Fund (ERDF) and the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh

https://ebooks.iospress.nl/volume/rob-milne-a-tribute-to-a-pioneering-ai-scientist-entrepreneur-and-mountaineer

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1218852.1218859

Patents https://patents.justia.com/inventor/robert-william-milne

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15516709cog0604_3