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Treffer: THE EARLY YEARS OF LOGIC PROGRAMMING.

Title:
THE EARLY YEARS OF LOGIC PROGRAMMING.
Authors:
Kowalski, Robert A.1
Source:
Communications of the ACM. Jan1988, Vol. 31 Issue 1, p38-43. 6p.
Subject Terms:
*PROLOG (Computer program language), *COMPUTER operating systems, *INTELLIGENT agents, *ALGORITHMS, LOGIC programming languages, PARSING (Computer grammar)
People:
COLMERAUER, Alain
Database:
Business Source Premier

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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.