In Memoriam: Professor Yorick Wilks (1939 - 2023)

Professor Yorick Wilks, one of the pioneers of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, passed away peacefully at his home in Oxford on 14 April 2023. He was 83.

Professor Yorick Wilks smiling to the camera
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Former Head of Department of Computer Science and founder of the NLP Research Group, Yorick remained Professor Emeritus here at Sheffield until his death.

No one who has met Yorick will ever forget him. Often described as a “larger than