Jack Minker

Jack Minker (4 July 1927 – 9 April 2021) was a leading authority in artificial intelligence, deductive databases, logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning. He was also an internationally recognized leader in the field of human rights of computer scientists. He was an Emeritus Professor in the University of Maryland Department of Computer Science, which is part of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences.

Jack Minker
Jack Minker in 2007
Born(1927-07-04)4 July 1927
Brooklyn, New York City, New York
Died9 April 2021(2021-04-09) (aged 93)
Bethesda, Maryland
Alma materBrooklyn College (AB)
University of Wisconsin (MS)
University of Pennsylvania (PhD)
AwardsACM Fellow
Allen Newell Award (2005)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsUniversity of Maryland, College Park
ThesisSome Applications of Orthogonal Systems of Functions to Interpolation and Analytic Continuation (1959)
Doctoral advisorBernard Epstein
Doctoral students
  • Terry Gaasterland
Websiteprism.cs.umd.edu/people/minker.html
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