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    • Chris Reed

      Title:Professor

      Email:c.a.reed@dundee.ac.uk

    • Professional Experience

        2009 -              Professor, Computing, University of Dundee

        2007 - 2009     Reader, Computing, University of Dundee

        2006 - 2007     Senior Lecturer, Computing, University of Dundee

        1999 - 2006     Lecturer, Computing, University of Dundee

    • Research Specialization

      Chris Reed is Professor of Computer Science and Philosophy at the University of Dundee in Scotland, where he heads the Centre for Argument Technology (www.arg.tech). Chris has been working at the overlap between argumentation theory and artificial intelligence for two decades and specialises in the theory, practice and commercialisation of argument technology. He has won over £6.5m of funding from government, charity and commercial sources, has over 200 peer-reviewed papers in the area including five books, and has served as a director of several technology companies. He has also been instrumental in the development of the Argument Interchange Format, an international standard for computational work in the area; he is spear-heading the major engineering effort behind the Argument Web; and he is a founding editor of the Journal of Argument & Computation. He also provides evidence to various committees at Westminster and his media appearances and writing have reached an audience in excess of 30 million people.