Keith Darlington

Dr Keith Darlington is the author of five books on AI and related topics. Although now retired, he spent most of his working life as a university lecturer specialising in Artificial intelligence (AI), where he gained much research experience in European funding research programmes and taught the subject on both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. He was awarded a first-class honours degree in pure mathematics at University College Cardiff 1974 and completed his PhD in Artificial Intelligence at London South Bank University.

After graduation, his work in mathematics continued using digital computers for mathematical modelling. Digital computers were then being used to solve problems that required computer programming skills, and his career direction started moving towards computing. He became aware of AI whilst working for ARAMCO in Saudi Arabia in the 1980s. A fortuitous opportunity followed when he was offered a lecturing post in AI and Knowledge-Based Systems, at London South Bank University in the UK. At that time, few academics had heard of AI. Nowadays, it's rare to find anyone who hasn't.

He has been very active in AI ever since and has presented several conference papers on this subject in several countries throughout the world. He also has published several papers in AI in academic journals. He also takes an avid interest in other branches of computing and has written books on Web development and Visual Basic for Applications programming as well as expert systems - a branch of artificial intelligence. He retired as a university lecturer in 2012, but he continues to write AI papers in journals and online publications. He has written over 70 articles in AI and related topics in the last 5 years. He also won an award for the best IQ Article of the Year 2020/21". This was awarded by RIMPA, Australia, at a ceremony in Canberra, Australia during 2022.

Keith was born and grew up in Tonyrefail in Wales. Since retirement, he has moved back to Wales and now lives in Caldicot where he, and his wife Janice, enjoy a range of activities. His ambition is to walk the complete Welsh Coastal Path - a distance of almost 1,400 km. If he isn't too exhausted from the ordeal, he would like to write a book on the experience.