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-mach... 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@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 _______________________________________________ This email is relayed from members at sigcis.org, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. Opinions expressed here are those of the member posting and are not reviewed, edited, or endorsed by SIGCIS. The list archives are at http://lists.sigcis.org/pipermail/members-sigcis.org/ and you can change your subscription options at http://lists.sigcis.org/listinfo.cgi/members-sigcis.org