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Jack Minker

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He received the ACM Outstanding Contribution Award for his work on human rights in 1985, the ACM Recognition of Service Award in 1989, the University of Maryland President's Medal for 1996, and the prestigious ACM Allen Newell Award for 2005. The Allen Newell Award is a recognition by the Association
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For championing the rights of scientists to practice their profession freely and openly, for bringing to public attention the names of scientists deprived of their scientific freedom and human rights, and for giving these victims hope and making them aware of ACM's
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Minker has been vice-chairman of the Committee of Concerned Scientists since 1973, and vice-chairman of the Committee on Scientific Freedom and Human Rights (CSFHR) of the Association for Computing Machinery from 1980 to 1989. He led the struggle for the release of
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for Computing Machinery to individuals that have contributed to the breadth of knowledge within computer science and the bridging between computer science and other disciplines. He also received the 2011 Heinz R. Pagels Human Rights Award from the
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Minker has over 150 refereed publications and has edited or co-edited five books on deductive databases, logic programming, and the use of logic in artificial intelligence. He was Founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal
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and to cooperative and informative answers for deductive databases. He has also developed a theoretical basis for disjunctive databases and disjunctive logic programs, developing the
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Minker was one of the founders of the area of deductive databases and disjunctive logic programming. He has made important contributions to semantic
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Department of Computer Science, which is part of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences.
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for contributions to deductive databases, disjunctive logic programming, and artificial intelligence
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Some Applications of Orthogonal Systems of Functions to Interpolation and Analytic Continuation
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Scientific Freedom & Human Rights: Scientists of Conscience During the Cold War
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Minker, Jack (1982). "On indefinite databases and the closed world assumption".
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for his work on behalf of scientific freedom and human rights for scientists.
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Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
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Minker was born on July 4, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York. He received his
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Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Lobo, Jorge; Rajasekar, Arcot (1995). "Jack Minker β€” A profile".
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Minker started his career in industry in 1951, working at the
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from the late Soviet Union. He also campaigned on behalf of
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Gallaire, HervΓ©; Minker, Jack; Nicolas, Jean-Marie (1989).
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Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
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1994 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
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Generating cooperative answers in deductive databases
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Brooklyn
New York City
New York
Bethesda
Maryland
Brooklyn College
University of Wisconsin
University of Pennsylvania
ACM Fellow
Allen Newell Award
Computer Science
University of Maryland, College Park
Thesis
Some Applications of Orthogonal Systems of Functions to Interpolation and Analytic Continuation
Doctoral advisor
Bernard Epstein
Terry Gaasterland
prism.cs.umd.edu/people/minker.html
artificial intelligence
deductive databases
logic programming
non-monotonic reasoning
Emeritus
University of Maryland
Bachelor of Arts
Brooklyn College
Master of Arts
University of Wisconsin
PhD

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