Brian R. Gaines

Brian R. Gaines (born ) is a British scientist, engineer, and professor emeritus at the University of Calgary.

Biography Gaines received his Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from Trinity College, Cambridge, and he is a Chartered Engineer, and Chartered Psychologist.

Gaines is one of the pioneers in what is known as stochastic computing, a term he used first to characterise the highly attractive field when working at the Standard Telephones and Cables Ltd. (STL) in search of computational processors capable of learning during the 1960s.

Guy André Boy said of Gaines' role in the development of the field of knowledge acquisition:

Publications He has authored over 450 papers and authored or edited at least 11 books on a wide variety of aspects of computer and human systems. His books include: 1977. Fuzzy automata and decision processes. Edited with Madan M. Gupta and George N. Saridis. 1981. Fuzzy reasoning and its applications. Edited with E.H. Mamdani. 1984. Fuzzy sets and decision analysis. Edited with H.J. Zimmermann and L.A. Zadeh. 1984. Art of computer conversation: a new medium for communication. With Mildred L.G. Shaw. 1988. Knowledge acquisition for knowledge-based systems. Edited with J.H. Boose. 1988. Knowledge acquisition tools for expert systems. Edited with J.H. Boose. 1988. European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop: Proceedings of the European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop (EKAW'88) 19–23 June 1988. Edited with John Boose and Marc Linster. 1990. Machine learning and uncertain reasoning. Edited with J. H. Boose. 1992. Proceedings of the European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop (EKAW'91) 20–24 May 1991. Edited with Mark Linster. 1997. Artificial intelligence in knowledge management: papers from the 1997 AAAI Symposium, 24–26 March, Stanford, California. Edited with Mark A. Musen and Ramasamy Uthurusamy. 2013. Cognitive ergonomics: understanding, learning, and designing human–computer interaction. Edited with Pierre Falzon and Andrew F. Monk.