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Robert Kowalski

Also Known As Robert Anthony Kowalski
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Robert Kowalski is an American-British logician and computer scientist whose research is concerned with developing both human-oriented models of computing and computational models of human thinking. He has spent most of his career at Imperial College London, where his work on logic programming underlies the Horn-clause language Prolog and, later, the event calculus.

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Birth Year
1941 1
Birth Date
1941-05-15 1
Nationality
American-British 1
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ACM Fellow 2
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AAAI Fellow 2
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IJCAI Award for Research Excellence 2
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Source Wikidata: Prolog
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1. Wikipedia: Robert Kowalski
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Robert Anthony Kowalski (born 15 May 1941) is an American-British logician and computer scientist, whose research is concerned with developing both human-oriented models of computing and computational models of human thinking.
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2. Wikidata: Robert Kowalski
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