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Raymond Reiter

1939 – 2002

Canadian computer scientist

Computer scientist Engineer Artificial intelligence researcher
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About Raymond Reiter

Lived 1939 – 2002 (aged 63). Raymond Reiter was a Canadian computer scientist, engineer, artificial intelligence researcher, university teacher, logician and mathematician.

Awards and honors He was a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), an AAAI Fellow, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He won the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence in 1993.

Publications

R. Reiter (1978). On closed world data bases. In H. Gallaire and J. Minker, editors, Logic and Data Bases, pages 119–140. Plenum., New York. R. Reiter (1980). A logic for default reasoning. Artificial Intelligence, 13:81-132. R. Reiter (1987). A theory of diagnosis from first principles. Artificial Intelligence, 32:57-95. R. Reiter (1991). The frame problem in the situation calculus: a simple solution (sometimes) and a completeness result for goal regression. In Vladimir Lifschitz, editor, Artificial Intelligence and Mathematical Theory of Computation: Papers in Honor of John McCarthy, pages 359–380. Academic Press, New York. R. Reiter (2001) Knowledge in Action: Logical Foundations for Specifying and Implementing Dynamical Systems (448 pp.). The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England. R. Reiter and J. de Kleer (1987). Foundations of assumption-based truth maintenance systems: Preliminary report. In Proceedings of the Sixth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'87), pages 183–188. H. Levesque, F. Pirri, and R. Reiter (1998). Foundations for the situation calculus Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 2(3–4):159-178. F. Pirri and R. Reiter (1999). Some contributions to the metatheory of the Situation Calculus Journal of the ACM, 46(3):325–361.

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Important facts

Birth century
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Education
University of Michigan, University of Toronto
Employers
University of Toronto
Awards
IJCAI Award for Research Excellence; AAAI Fellow; ACM Fellow
Also known as
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Frequently asked questions

Who was Raymond Reiter?

Canadian computer scientist (1939-2002)

When was Raymond Reiter born?

Raymond Reiter was born on 12 June 1939 in Toronto.

When did Raymond Reiter die?

Raymond Reiter died on 16 September 2002.

What was Raymond Reiter's occupation?

Raymond Reiter was a computer scientist, engineer, artificial intelligence researcher, university teacher, logician and mathematician.

What nationality was Raymond Reiter?

Raymond Reiter was Canadian.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Raymond Reiter

· Wikidata: Q7299101

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