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Computational Logic: Logic Programming and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Robert A. Kowalski Part II

By Antonis C. Kakas , Fariba Sadri (eds.) , Paolo Baldan , Paolo Mancarella , Alessandra Raffaetà , Franco Turini (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2002
ISBN
3540439609, 9783540439608
DOI
10.1007/3-540-45632-5
LCC
QA76.63 .C64 2002
Open Library ID
OL18175345M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3950661 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2408 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Volume
part 2
Edition
1
Pages
628\637
Library
Kolxo3
Time added
2009-12-04 00:34:26
Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Programm

Description

Alan Robinson This set of essays pays tribute to Bob Kowalski on his 60th birthday, an anniversary which gives his friends and colleagues an excuse to celebrate his career as an original thinker, a charismatic communicator, and a forceful intellectual leader. The logic programming community hereby and herein conveys its respect and thanks to him for his pivotal role in creating and fostering the conceptual paradigm which is its raison d’Œtre. The diversity of interests covered here reflects the variety of Bob’s concerns. Read on. It is an intellectual feast. Before you begin, permit me to send him a brief personal, but public, message: Bob, how right you were, and how wrong I was. I should explain. When Bob arrived in Edinburgh in 1967 resolution was as yet fairly new, having taken several years to become at all widely known. Research groups to investigate various aspects of resolution sprang up at several institutions, the one organized by Bernard Meltzer at Edinburgh University being among the first. For the half-dozen years that Bob was a leading member of Bernard’s group, I was a frequent visitor to it, and I saw a lot of him. We had many discussions about logic, computation, and language.

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