John Alan Robinson

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John Alan Robinson was a pioneering logician and computer scientist best known for introducing the resolution principle, a fundamental method in automated theorem proving and logic programming.


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instanceOf computer scientist
logician
person
academicDiscipline computer science
logic
philosophy
awardReceived CAI Distinguished Research Award
Herbrand Award
birthDate 1930
birthPlace Yorkshire, England
contributedTo foundations of logic programming
resolution-based theorem provers
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United States of America
deathDate 2016
educatedAt Cambridge University NERFINISHED
Princeton University
employer Syracuse University
familyName Robinson
fieldOfWork artificial intelligence
automated theorem proving
logic programming
mathematical logic
fullName John Alan Robinson
givenName John
hasResearchInterest automated deduction
first-order logic
non-classical logics
influenced development of Prolog
research in automated reasoning
research in logic programming
inspired SLD-resolution in logic programming
development of resolution-based proof procedures in AI
introduced resolution principle
knownFor 1965 paper on a machine-oriented logic based on the resolution principle
languageOfWorkOrName English
notableFor automated deduction
contributions to logic programming
resolution principle
positionHeld professor of computer science at Syracuse University

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