THE EARLY YEARS OF LOGIC PROGRAMMING.
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| Title: | THE EARLY YEARS OF LOGIC PROGRAMMING. |
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| Authors: | Kowalski, Robert A.1 |
| Source: | Communications of the ACM. Jan1988, Vol. 31 Issue 1, p38-43. 6p. |
| Subjects: | Prolog (Computer program language), Logic programming languages, Computer operating systems, Intelligent agents, Algorithms, Colmerauer, Alain, Parsing (Computer grammar) |
| Abstract: | Presents the author's personal account of the early history of logic programming. Information on the first contact with the Marseilles group which developed a natural language question-answering system; Role of computer scientist Alain Colmerauer in using logic to represent grammar and use of resolution to parse sentences; Focus on the personal significance of the discovery that computation could be subsumed by deduction. |
| Database: | Engineering Source |
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