Georg Gottlob

Georg Gottlob (* June 30, 1956 in Vienna) is an Austrian computer scientist. He works primarily in the areas of database theory, logic and artificial intelligence. He is currently a professor at the University of Oxford.

Life

Georg Gottlob completed a doctoral program in computer science at the Technical University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1981 to the doctor. Since 1988 he was a professor of computer science at the Technical University of Vienna, where he still holds a teaching appointment as Adjunct Professor. In 2006 he was appointed Professor to Oxford. He is a Fellow at the city's St Anne 's College. At the Oxford University Computing Laboratory, he co-founded the Information Systems Research Group.

He has published over 200 scientific articles, as well as a textbook on Logic programming and databases.

Awards

• Member of the Academy of Sciences
• Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 2006)
• Member of the Academia Europaea
• Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM )
• Fellow of the Royal Society ( 2010)

• Wittgenstein Prize (1998)
• Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2006)
• ERC Advanced Grant ( 2011)
• Cardinal Innitzer Price ( 2013)

Writings

• Stefano Ceri, Georg Gottlob, Letizia Tanca: Logic programming and databases. Springer -Verlag, 1990.
• Georg Gottlob: Simulation of interactively controlled tram networks, thesis, Univ. Vienna, 1979, partly in. Werner DePauli - Schimanovich: EUROPOLIS6: computer science for gaming and traffic & Extension of set theory, Trauner Verlag, Linz, 2006.
• Georg Gottlob: Multi-valued logic and computer science, Thesis, partly in: Werner DePauli - Schimanovich: EUROPOLIS6: computer science for gaming and traffic & Extension of set theory, Trauner Verlag, Linz, 2006.