[net.ai] January Monthly Meeting, Greater Boston Chapter/ACM

PLUKEL@sri-unix.UUCP (01/26/84)

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             Dr.  Komorowski's  articles have appeared in proceedings  of
        the  IXth  POPL,  the 1980 Logic Programming Workshop  (Debrecen,
        Hungary),  and the book "Logic Programming",  edited by Clark and
        Taernlund.   He  acted  as Program Chairman for the  recent  IEEE
        Prolog tutorial at Brandies University, is serving on the Program
        Committee  of  the  1984 Logic  Programming  Symposium  (Atlantic
        City),  and is a member of the Editorial Board of THE JOURNAL  OF
        LOGIC PROGRAMMING.

             Prolog  has been selected as the programming language of the
        Japanese  Fifth  Generation Computer Project.   It is  the  first
        realization of logic programming ideas,  and implements a theorem
        prover  based  on a design attributed  to  J.A.  Robinson,  which
        limits resolution to a Horn clause subset of assertions.

             A  Prolog program is a collection of true statements in  the
        form  of RULES.   A computation is a proof from these assertions.
        Numerous   implementations  of  Prolog  have   elaborated   Alain
        Colmerauer's original, including Dr. Komorowski's own Qlog, which
        operates in LISP environments.

             Dr.  Komorowski  will present an introduction to  elementary
        logic  programming  concepts  and an overview  of  more  advanced
        topics,    including   metalevel   inference,    expert   systems
        programming, databases, and natural language processing.

                                 DATE:     Thursday, 26 January 1984
                                 TIME:     8:00 PM
                                 PLACE:    Intermetrics Atrium
                                           733 Concord Avenue
                                           Cambridge, MA
                                         (near Fresh Pond Circle)

                COMPUTER MOVIE and REFRESHMENTS before the talk.
                 Lecture dinner at 6pm open to all GBC members.
                   Call (617) 444-5222 for additional details.