Philosophers Among Recent ARC Future Fellowship Winners

The Australian Research Council last month announced the winners of its latest round of Future Fellowships. . The fellowship awards are roughly AU $1 million, and are intended to support 4-year projects. The philosophy faculty named in this recent round of fellowships include: Guillermo Badia (The University of Queensland)A project to develop new many-valued logics to help machines reason about data that is scored with numbers, probabilities, security access levels, etc. This is a significant issue since a great deal of information we handle in daily life comes in this form. This project expects to improve how we ask questions of complex databases by producing novel techniques and explore how much time and memory computers need to answer them. This has potential for applications in AI, secure data access and disease tracking, among others. The expected outcomes are novel logical tools for understanding and optimizing queries. Benefits include the development of distinguished expertise…