Andrew Lewis

Andrew is an old IT hand who after graduating from NELP with a BA Hons in Business Studies in 1981 made early progress as a Commercial Analyst with Hewlett Packard, and later as a Program Manager managing the internationalization of Lotus 1-2-3 and Lotus Symphony in seven concurrent language projects with Lotus Development European Corp.(now part of IBM).

After forming a joint software translation company in the mid 1980s in Oxford, Andrew became interested in AI as a tool, using Borland's Turbo Prolog. After closing the company around 1990 he then gained Prolog and Knowledge Engineering modules on the Open University IT MSc course, and studied philosophy, gaining A at "A"-level, reading further on. He then became a contractor, working on a UK Home Office expert systems project using Prolog, and building MS-Access applications in the City of London, for such companies as Sun Life of Canada, and Royal Bank of Canada. After developing and selling an automatic app to remediate the Millennium bug in Access applications, he worked on a variety of projects, until in 2007 signing up onto an MSc in Conservation Management (Ecological) at Writtle College, graduating 2009.

Andrew is now working on a number of advanced commercial R&D projects, including Project ERGON, an investigation into building an artificial moral agent, and Project BEESWAX, a collaborative project in the mathematical optimization of commercial beehive placement. Both projects have given rise to his increasing interest in ontologies and their use in AI software development.

He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, an Affiliate member of the British Computer Society and member of the BCS-SGAI, and a member of the IEEE.

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