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Alistair Holden, Professor, Professor of Electrical Engineering, originated in the Highlands of Scotland. He received his BSc degree from the University of Glasgow and then spent two years with the British Broadcasting Corporation's Engineering Division as a ``graduate apprentice''. Most of this was spent in the Research Division. He then spent a year at Yale on the ``Edison'' fellowship and got their M Eng degree. His PhD degree is from the University of Washington with a dissertation on learning in artificial intelligence. (His interest in AI began while taking a course from Colin Cherry at the Imperial College in London while with the BBC).

He is one of those who initiated the computer science program at the UW at the time when a group of faculty from mostly the math and EE departments formed a group within the graduate school.

He is currently working in new applications of AI such as knowledge- based systems, verification of expert systems, integrated symbolic/neural net methodology, speech understanding and computer-aided design.