Alain Colmerauer

Alain Marie Albert Colmerauer ( born January 24, 1941 in Carcassonne ) is a French computer scientist. He is regarded as one of the inventors of the logic programming language Prolog and the Q - system, one of the first linguistic tools during the development of TAUM - METEO prototypes. He works as a professor at the University of Aix -Marseille.

Life and work

Colmerauer studied from 1963 at the École nationale supérieure d' informatique et de Mathématiques appliquées de Grenoble ( ENSIMAG ). In 1967, he became a doctor of computer science through his dissertation Precedences, analysis syntaxique et langages de programmation. From 1967 to 1970 he was in Canada, where he worked as an assistant professor at the University of Montreal. In 1972, the research group Groupe d' Intelligence Artificielle de Luminy in Marseille implemented under the direction of Colmerauer first time the programming language Prolog.

Prizes and awards

In 1986 he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour. In 1987 he became a corresponding member of the Academie des Sciences.

Family

Alain Colmerauer is married and has three children.