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Alain Colmerauer

Born 24 January 1941

Carcassonne, France

Died 12 May 2017 (aged 76)

Marseille, France

Known for Prolog

Spouse(s) Colette Coursaget

Children 3

Scientific career

Thesis Precedences, analyse syntaxique et langages de

programmation (1967)
 Doctoral Louis Bolliet, Jean Kuntzman

advisor

Alain Colmerauer (24 January 1941 – 12 May 2017) was a French computer scientist.

He was a professor at Aix-Marseille University, and the creator of the logic
programming language Prolog.

Contents

 1Early life
 2Career
 3Death
 4References
 5External links

Early life[edit]
Alain Colmerauer was born on 24 January 1941 in Carcassonne.[1] He graduated from
the Grenoble Institute of Technology,[2] and he earned a Ph.D. from
the Ensimag in Grenoble.[3]

Career[edit]
Colmerauer spent 1967–1970 as assistant professor at the University of Montreal,
[3]
 where he created Q-Systems, one of the earliest linguistic formalisms used in the
development of the TAUM-METEO machine translation prototype.[2] Developing Prolog
III in 1984, he was one of the main founders of the field of constraint logic programming.
[2]

Colmerauer became an associate professor at Aix-Marseille University in Luminy in

1970. He was promoted to full professor in 1979. From 1993 to 1995, he was head of
the Laboratoire d'Informatique de Marseille (LIM), a joint laboratory of the Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique, the Université de Provence and the Université de
la Méditerranée.[3] Despite retiring as emeritus professor in 2006, [3] he remained a
member of the artificial intelligence taskforce in Luminy. [4]
Colmerauer won an award from the regional council of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,
and in 1985 the Michel Monpetit Award, from the French Academy of Sciences.[5] In
1986, he was made a knight of the Legion of Honour by the French government.[3] He
became Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence in 1991, [6] and
received the Association for Constraint Programming's Research Excellence Award in
2008.[7] He was also a correspondent of the French Academy of Sciences in the area of
mathematics.[8]

Death[edit]
 Colmerauer died on 12 May 2017.[3][9][10][11]

References[edit]
1. ^ "Colmerauer, Alain (1941-....)".  IdRef. Retrieved  19 May  2017.
2. ^ Jump up to:      Cohen, Jacques (November 2001). "A Tribute to Alain
a b c

Colmerauer". Theory and Practice of Logic Programming. 1  (6): 637–

646.  arXiv:cs/0402058. doi:10.1017/S1471068401001119.
3. ^ Jump up to:a b c d e f Editors (15 May 2017).  "In Memoriam: Alain
Colmerauer". Association for Logic Programming. Retrieved 18
May 2017.
4. ^ "Colmerauer, Alain". Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 19
May 2017.
5. ^ "PRIX DE COMMISSIONS". La Vie des sciences. 1985.
Retrieved 19 May 2017 – via Bibliothèque nationale de France.
6. ^ "ELECTED AAAI FELLOWS".  American Association of Artificial
Intelligence. Retrieved  19 May  2017.
7. ^ "Research Excellence Award".  Association for Constraint
Programming. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
8. ^ "Alain Colmerauer".  Académie des sciences. Retrieved  19
May 2017.
9. ^ Fisher, Lawrence M. "In Memoriam Alain Colmerauer: 1941-
2017". Communications of the ACM. ACM. Retrieved 23 May2017. —
According to this obituary, Alain Colmerauer died on 15 May.
10. ^ lemonde.fr (in French)
11. ^ ensimag.grenoble-inp.fr (in French)

External links[edit]
 Official website

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