To vladimir lifschitz on his 65th birthday

  • Authors:
  • Jack Minker

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

  • Venue:
  • Correct Reasoning
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

I am honored to have been invited by the editors of this Festschrift to write an article in honor of Vladimir Lifschitz on the occasion of his 65th birthday. In this article I describe some of the major contributions that Vladimir has made in his exceptional career. I provide background material about Vladimir in the Former Soviet Union (FSU), where he was born; discuss his beginning years in the United States (US); how I became aware of his research; his work on stable models with Michael Gelfond, and some of my work in related areas; and describe some of the many contributions Vladimir has made in formalizing ad hoc approaches in artificial intelligence to a formal basis of logic-based analysis.