Information about Alain Colmerauer

Alain Colmerauer (born January 24 1941) is a French computer scientist. He is the creator of the logic programming language Prolog and Q-Systems, one of the earliest linguistic formalisms used in the development of the TAUM-METEO machine translation prototype. He is a professor at the University of Aix-Marseilles, specialising in the field of constraint programming.

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Computer science, or computing science, is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their implementation and application in computer systems.
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<noinclude></noinclude> Logic programming (which might better be called logical programming by analogy with mathematical programming and linear programming) is, in its broadest sense, the use of mathematical logic for computer programming.
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Prolog
Paradigm: Logic programming
Appeared in: 1972
Designed by: Alain Colmerauer
Major implementations: BProlog, GNU Prolog, Quintus, SICStus, Strawberry, SWI-Prolog, YAP-Prolog
Dialects: ISO Prolog, Edinburgh Prolog
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Q-Systems are a method of directed graph transformations according to given grammar rules, developed at the Université de Montréal by Alain Colmerauer in the late 1960's for use in natural language processing.
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Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the acronym MT, is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of computer software to translate text or speech from one natural language to another.
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The three Universities of Aix-Marseille, situated in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille for over five centuries, are the successors to the original establishments created in the region during the 19th century.
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Constraint programming is a programming paradigm where relations between variables can be stated in the form of constraints. Constraints differ from the common primitives of other programming languages in that they do not specify a step or sequence of steps to execute but rather
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