Keith Clark (computer scientist)
Keith L. Clark | |
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| Born | (1943年03月29日) March 29, 1943 (age83) |
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| Scientific career | |
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| Thesis | Predicate Logic as a Computational Formalism (1980) |
| Robert Kowalski | |
| Website | www |
Keith Leonard Clark (born 29 March 1943) is a British computer scientist. He is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, England.[1]
Education
[edit ]Clark studied Mathematics at Durham University (Hatfield College), graduating in 1964 with a first-class degree.[2] [3] [4] He continued his studies at Cambridge University, taking a second undergraduate degree in Philosophy in 1966.[4] He earned a Ph.D. in 1980 from the University of London.[5]
Career and research
[edit ]Clark lectured in mathematics at City of London Polytechnic from 1966 to 1967, and then spent a year as a teacher in Sierra Leone with Voluntary Service Overseas.[4] He lectured in Computer Science at the Mathematics Department of Queen Mary College from 1969 to 1975.[4] That year he moved to Imperial College London, where he became a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, and joined Robert Kowalski in setting up the logic programming group.[6] He was a Visiting Associate Professor at University of California, Santa Cruz in 1977.[4]
In 1980, with colleague Frank McCabe, he founded an Imperial College spin-off company, Logic Programming Associates, to develop and market Prolog systems for microcomputers (micro-Prolog) and to provide consultancy on expert systems and other logic programming applications.[4] [7] He was appointed Professor of Computational Logic at Imperial College in 1987.[8]
As a researcher, his key contributions have been in the field of logic programming.[9] More recent research interests include multi-agent systems, cognitive robotics and multi-threading.[10]
Selected publications
[edit ]Books
[edit ]- Clark, K. L.; McCabe, Frank G. (1983). micro-PROLOG: Programming in Logic. Old Tappan, NJ: Prentice Hall Inc. ISBN 9780135812648.
Book chapters
[edit ]- Clark, K. L. (1978). "Negation as Failure". In Gallaire, Hervé; Minker, Jack (eds.). Logic and Data Bases. Boston, MA: Springer. pp.293–322. doi:10.1007/978-1-4684-3384-5_11.
Journal articles
[edit ]- Clark, K. L.; Darlington, John (1980). "Algorithm classification through synthesis". The Computer Journal. 23 (1): 61–65.
- Clark, K. L.; Gregory, Steve (1986). "PARLOG: parallel programming in logic". ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems. 8 (1): 1–49.
- Clark, K. L.; McCabe, Frank G. (2004). "Go!—A multi-paradigm programming language for implementing multi-threaded agents" (PDF). Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. 41 (2): 171–206.
References
[edit ]- ↑ Jean-Louis Lassez; Gordon Plotkin, eds. (1991). Computational Logic — Essays in Honor of Alan Robinson . Cambridge/MA: MIT Press. p. 723. ISBN 0-262-12156-5.
- ↑ "Results of Final Examinations held in June 1964". University of Durham Gazette Supplement. XI (New Series): 7. 30 September 1964. Retrieved 26 August 2024.
- ↑ "Durham University MathSoc". Facebook . 9 December 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
Prof Clark graduated from our department in 1964 (Hatfield College), before embarking on a career in artificial intelligence and computational logic
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Curriculum Vitae: Keith Leonard Clark" (PDF). AIST. 1984. pp. 4–5. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
- ↑ Predicate logic as a computational formalism (PhD thesis). University of London. 1980. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
- ↑ "talks@bham : Rule Control of Goal Directed, Reactive, Communicating Robotic Agents". Birmingham University. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
- ↑ "Temporal Logic Semantics for Teleo-Reactive Robotic Agent Programs". cse.cuhk.edu.hk. Chinese University of Hong Kong.
- ↑ "Prof. Keith Clark". INSTICC. 2018. Archived from the original on 3 September 2025. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
- ↑ Keith L. Clark at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
- ↑ "Keith Clark's Home Page" . Retrieved 11 May 2023.
External links
[edit ]- Keith Clark publications indexed by Google Scholar