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The advocates of the resolution approach have by no means been quiescent during the 1970s. About 1972, the theorem prover of Wos, Robinson and Carson was replaced by one developed by Ross Overbeek. The system has continued to develop with contributions from S. Winker, E. Lusk, B. Smith and L. Wos.
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Contemporary Mathematics: Proceedings of the Special Session on Automatic Theorem Proving, 89th Annual Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, held in Denver, Colorado, January 5–9, 1983
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In 1998, Overbeek was one of several scientists who co-founded the company Integrated Genomics, Inc. with CEO Michael Fonstein. The company makes the ERGO database and analytics system.
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ssistant.... AURA is now viewed by its originators as a useful research tool for solving open problems subject to precise axiomatic formulations.
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in 1970, and a Ph.D. in computer science from Penn State in 1971. For the next 11 years he was a computer science professor at
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institution, to establish the National Microbial Pathogen Data Resource Center with an $ 18 million federal grant.
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research. In 2004, the FIG partnered with the Computation Institute, a joint Argonne Lab and
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In 2003, he co-founded the Fellowship for Interpretation of Genomes (FIG), a
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In 1983 he joined the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of
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that coordinates the development of bioinformatics tools and
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In the early 1970s a theorem prover named AURA, for
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Traverse City, Michigan
Pennsylvania State University
automated theorem proving
Computer science
mathematical logic
bioinformatics
Argonne National Laboratory
Doctoral advisor
computer scientist
Argonne National Laboratory
mathematical logic
genomics
programming
database theory
Prolog
Traverse City, Michigan
R. W. Bradford
libertarian
Liberty
Grand Valley State College
Pennsylvania State University
Northern Illinois University
Argonne National Laboratory
automated theorem proving
National Institutes of Health
United States Department of Energy
Human Genome Initiative
non-profit organization
comparative genomics
University of Chicago

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