Raymond Reiter | |
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Born | June 12, 1939 |
Died | September 16, 2002 | (aged 63)
Alma mater | University of Michigan (PhD) |
Awards | ACM Fellow AAAI Fellow IJCAI Award for Research Excellence |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Non-monotonic logic |
Institutions | University of Toronto |
Thesis | A Study of a Model for Parallel Computations (1967) |
Doctoral advisor | Harvey Garner Richard M. Karp[1] |
Doctoral students | Sheila McIlraith[1][2] |
Raymond Reiter FRSC (/ˈraɪtər/; June 12, 1939 – September 16, 2002) was a Canadian computer scientist and logician. He was one of the founders of the field of non-monotonic reasoning with his work on default logic, model-based diagnosis, closed-world reasoning, and truth maintenance systems. He also contributed to the situation calculus.[3][1][4][5]