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Ian Horrocks

Also Known As Ian Robert Horrocks · I. Horrocks
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Ian Robert Horrocks (born March 11, 1958, in Liverpool) is a professor of computer science at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Oriel College, known for his work on description logic and the Web Ontology Language. His research covers knowledge representation and reasoning, particularly ontology languages, description logic and optimized tableaux decision procedures, and he authored the OIL, DAML+OIL and OWL ontology language standards, chairing the World Wide Web Consortium working group that standardized OWL 2. His 1997 doctoral thesis was titled Optimising Tableaux Decision Procedures for Description Logics, and he received the Roger Needham Award in 2005 and the BCS Lovelace Medal in 2020.

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Birth Year
1958 1
Birth Date
1958-03-11 1
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1. Ian Horrocks (Wikidata)
  • Wikidata alias: Ian Robert Horrocks
    Ian Robert Horrocks
  • Wikidata P166: Lovelace Medal
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Lovelace Medal.
  • Wikidata P166: Fellow of the Royal Society
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Fellow of the Royal Society.
  • Wikidata P166: Fellow of the British Computer Society
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Fellow of the British Computer Society.
  • Wikidata alias: I. Horrocks
    I. Horrocks
  • P569 (date of birth): year 1958
    1958
  • P569 (date of birth): 1958-03-11
    1958-03-11
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