Keith Leonard Clark (born 29 March 1943) is a British computer scientist. He is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, England.[1]
Keith L. Clark | |
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| Born | March 29, 1943 |
| Nationality | British |
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| Thesis | Predicate Logic as a Computational Formalism (1980) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Kowalski |
| Website | www |
Education
editClark studied Mathematics at Durham University (Hatfield College), graduating in 1964 with a first-class degree.[2][3][4] He continued his studies at Cambridge University, taking a second undergraduate degree in Philosophy in 1966.[4] He earned a Ph.D. in 1980 from the University of London.[5]
Career and research
editClark lectured in mathematics at City of London Polytechnic from 1966 to 1967, and then spent a year as a teacher in Sierra Leone with Voluntary Service Overseas.[4] He lectured in Computer Science at the Mathematics Department of Queen Mary College from 1969 to 1975.[4] That year he moved to Imperial College London, where he became a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, and joined Robert Kowalski in setting up the logic programming group.[6] He was a Visiting Associate Professor at University of California, Santa Cruz in 1977.[4]
In 1980, with colleague Frank McCabe, he founded an Imperial College spin-off company, Logic Programming Associates, to develop and market Prolog systems for microcomputers (micro-Prolog) and to provide consultancy on expert systems and other logic programming applications.[4][7] He was appointed Professor of Computational Logic at Imperial College in 1987.[8]
As a researcher, his key contributions have been in the field of logic programming.[9] More recent research interests include multi-agent systems, cognitive robotics and multi-threading.[10]
References
edit- ^ Jean-Louis Lassez; Gordon Plotkin, eds. (1991). Computational Logic — Essays in Honor of Alan Robinson. Cambridge/MA: MIT Press. p. 723. ISBN 0-262-12156-5.
- ^ "Results of Final Examinations held in June 1964". University of Durham Gazette Supplement. XI (New Series): 7. 30 September 1964. Retrieved 26 August 2024.
- ^ "Durham University MathSoc". Facebook. 9 December 2015. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
Prof Clark graduated from our department in 1964 (Hatfield College), before embarking on a career in artificial intelligence and computational logic
- ^ a b c d e f "Curriculum Vitae: Keith Leonard Clark" (PDF). AIST. 1984. pp. 4–5. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
- ^ Predicate logic as a computational formalism (PhD thesis). University of London. 1980. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
- ^ "talks@bham : Rule Control of Goal Directed, Reactive, Communicating Robotic Agents". Birmingham University. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
- ^ "Temporal Logic Semantics for Teleo-Reactive Robotic Agent Programs". cse.cuhk.edu.hk. Chinese University of Hong Kong.
- ^ "Prof. Keith Clark". INSTICC. 2018. Archived from the original on 3 September 2025. Retrieved 3 September 2025.
- ^ Keith L. Clark at DBLP Bibliography Server
- ^ "Keith Clark's Home Page". Retrieved 11 May 2023.
External links
edit- Keith Clark publications indexed by Google Scholar