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Erik Sandewall

Erik Sandewall 2005

* 1945 † 2024

Erik Sandewall, Professor of Computer Science at Linköping University, Sweden, from 1975 to 2024. His research activities were in two areas: first, artificial intelligence methods for cognitive robotics and their use in systems for human-computer and human-robot interaction and, secondly, new methods for communication of scientific results, including electronic publication.

Extended CV with posthumous additions (2024)

The statue of Erik Sandewall



Personal history (summary written by Erik himself)

  • I was born in 1945 in Oskarshamn, a small town on the south-east coast of Sweden,
  • ... but I grew up and went to school in Uppsala, Sweden (70 km north of Stockholm).
  • I continued at once with studies in math and computer science at Uppsala University,
  • ... and spent one year (1966-67) at the Stanford A.I. laboratory.
  • This led to a Ph.D. in Uppsala in 1969.
  • Margareta and I married in 1972. We have stuck together since, and have two boys: Anton (born in 1973) and Örjan (born in 1976).
  • I spent one year (1974-75) as visiting associate professor at the MIT AI Laboratory, and then continued to...
  • a position as professor of computer science at Linköping university(since 1975).
  • I also spent a one-year sabbatical at LAAS (Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systèmes) in Toulouse, France (1993-94).

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