Ebook: Computational Logic: Logic Programming and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Robert A. Kowalski Part II
- Genre: Mathematics // Computational Mathematics
- Tags: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Programming Techniques, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages, Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation
- Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2408 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
- Year: 2002
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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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.
Spans the whole field of computational logic seen from the point of view of logic programming. Addresses issues concerning the development of programming languages in logic and the application of computational logic to real-life problems. Softcover.