Ivan BRATKO

Ivan Bratko is a pioneer of Artificial Intelligence in Slovenia. He has supervised many Slovenian researchers who later became established scientists worldwide. He created and directed the AI laboratories at the Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences of Ljubljana University and Jožef Stefan Institute. His research interests include machine learning, heuristic search, logic programming, learning in logic, and qualitative reasoning. The areas of application of his work include robotics and medicine. His book Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence has appeared in four editions in English and has been translated to several other languages. Over the decades, it was among the leading textbooks for AI and declarative programming. Ivan Bratko was a visiting professor or scientist at the University of Edinburgh, The Turing Institute and Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Sydney University and University of New South Wales, Australia, Delft University, Alpen Adria University, Klagenfurt, Polytechnic University of Madrid, among others.

Bratko’s book Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence was first published in 1986 (Addison-Wesley), followed by another three editions, the fourth in 2012 (Pearson Education). It has also appeared in German, French, Italian, Slovene, Russian and Japanese.

1946 Born in Ljubljana

1970 BSc in electrical eng., University of Ljubljana

1975 MSc in electrical eng., University of Ljubljana

1977 Half year at University of Edinburgh

1978 PhD degree in Computer Science, University of Ljubljana

1985 Set up AI lab at University of Ljubljana

1989 Full professor, University of Ljubljana

2000 fellow of EurAI, European Association for AI

2003 full member of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts

2010 fellow of Academia Europaea

Izbrana dela

Možina M, Žabkar J, Bratko I (2007) Argument based machine learning. Artificial Intelligence 171 (10-15), 922- 937.

Šuc D, Vladušič D, Bratko I (2004) Qualitatively faithful quantitative prediction. Artificial Intelligence 158 (2), 189-214.

Bratko I, Mozetič I, Lavrač N (1990) KARDIO: a Study in Deep and Qualitative Knowledge for Expert Systems. MIT Press.

Selected Awards

1991 Ambassador in Science of Republic of Slovenia

2007 Michie-Turing award

2007 Zois award for outstanding scientific achievements, highest award in science in Slovenia