[SIGCIS-Members] History of Prolog

[christine mitchell]

Hi Pierre,

This may be known to you already, but prior to Prolog, Colmerauer headed up
a machine translation project at the Université de Montréal, 1968-1971.
Brian Harris – translation theorist – shares some recollections of working
with Colmerauer here:
https://unprofessionaltranslation.blogspot.com/2017/06/alain-colmerauer-machine-translation.html

I have a report on the systèmes-Q / Q-systems Colmerauer wrote in Montreal
if anyone is interested. Q-systems became the foundation of a system called
TAUM-MÉTÉO, used to translate Canadian government weather reports – used
for 20 years. I can't answer questions about Q-systems themselves, but am
familiar with the project in Montreal. (TAUM – Projet de traduction
automatique de l'Université de Montréal.)

Best,
Christine


On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 8:04 AM Pierre Mounier-Kuhn <mounier at msh-paris.fr>
wrote:

> Hi all,
> Prolog was a programming language based on formal logic, designed in 1972
> at the university of Marseille by Alain Colmerauer and his team. It was
> adopted ten years later in Japan to develop AI systems. Nowadays, it is
> almost as forgotten as Algol or APL. A conference is planned for November
> 2022 in Paris to pay hommage to Colmerauer and his work. A Colmerauer Prize
> Committee is formed, chaired by Prof. em. Robert Kowalski, Distinguished
> Research Fellow at Imperial College, London.
> I would like to know whether people, beyond Colmerauer's circle, have
> included Prolog, its development and use, in their historical research.
> Thanks for your answers!
> Best regards,
> Pierre Mounier-Kuhn
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