#1 - The Poet of Logic Programming
April 24, 2020 • 96 Minutes
An interview with Robert Kowalski, the co-creator of the field of logic programming and of the Prolog language. The conversation ranges over the history of Prolog, the ill-famed Fifth Generation Computer Systems project, the relation between symbolic AI and connectionist AI including deep learning, why rule engines fail at logic, and the future of logic programming.
Show notes
08:10
Computational Logic: Memories of the Past and Challenges for the Future
Maarten van Emden has great material about Robinson, including two interviews:
https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2016/09/16/alan-robinson/
https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/interview-with-alan-robinson-inventor-of-resolution-logic/
http://aarinc.org/Newsletters/089-2010-10.html#robinson
08:55
The Early Years of Logic Programming (Kowalski)
12:05
The British Nationality Act as a Logic Program
12:45
14:32
Thinking, Fast and Slow (book)
16:30
Alternatives to logical representations of knowledge
https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rak/papers/History.pdf
17:10
17:30
18:10
20:45
List concatenation (the append/3 predicate)
23:55
25:50
26:50
“it was Cordell who was interested in knowledge representation”
Theorem-Proving by Resolution as a Basis for Question-Answering Systems
29:50
35:00
Monads in functional programming
40:10
Un Systeme de Communication Homme-Machine en Francais
42:00
https://www.ihmc.us/groups/phayes/
43:15
The Birth of Prolog (Alain Colmerauer and Philippe Roussel)
46:00
Computational Logic and Human Thinking: How to be Artificially Intelligent
49:00
The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking (Barbara Minto)
51:00
52:20
56:10
57:10
01:08:30
The Fifth Generation Computer Systems project
