Alan Mackworth

ThinkersBorn 1945Computer scientist

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An artificial intelligence researcher at the University of British Columbia. His 1977 paper showed that backtracking search for a constraint satisfaction problem thrashes, and proposed local consistency algorithms that remove node, arc, and path inconsistencies before a full solution is attempted.

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