Primary Job Title President Primary Organization Indiana University Bloomington
Location Bloomington, Indiana, United States Regions Great Lakes, Midwestern US Gender Male
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Michael Alexander McRobbie is an Australian-American computer scientist, educator and academic administrator. He became the eighteenth president of Indiana University on July 1, 2007.
Michael Alexander McRobbie was born October 11, 1950 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and grew up in the Gold Coast. He graduated with a BSc with First Class
Honors from the University of Queensland in 1974, and with a PhD from the Australian National University in 1979. His early work was in philosophy, artificial intelligence and automated theorem proving. After a postdoctoral fellowship in philosophy, he founded an automated reasoning project, the ANU Centre for Information Science Research and the Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Computational Systems.
