Jack Minker

Jack Minker
Jack Minker in 2007
Born(1927-07-04)4 July 1927
Brooklyn, New York City, New York
Died9 April 2021(2021-04-09) (aged 93)
Bethesda, Maryland
Alma materBrooklyn College (AB)
University of Wisconsin (MS)
University of Pennsylvania (PhD)
AwardsACM Fellow[when?]
Allen Newell Award (2005)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsUniversity of Maryland, College Park
ThesisSome Applications of Orthogonal Systems of Functions to Interpolation and Analytic Continuation (1959)
Doctoral advisorBernard Epstein[1]
Doctoral students
Websiteprism.cs.umd.edu/people/minker.html

Jack Minker (4 July 1927 – 9 April 2021)[3][4] was a leading authority in artificial intelligence, deductive databases, logic programming and non-monotonic reasoning.[5] He was also an internationally recognized leader in the field of human rights of computer scientists. He was an Emeritus Professor in the University of Maryland Department of Computer Science, which is part of the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences.[6]

  1. ^ Jack Minker at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Gaasterland, Theresa (1992). Generating cooperative answers in deductive databases. acm.org (PhD thesis). University of Maryland, College Park. OCLC 843767978. (subscription required)
  3. ^ "Happy 90th Birthday to Founding Chair Jack Minker". www.cs.umd.edu. 5 July 2017.
  4. ^ "Jack Minker Obituary". Legacy.com. 12 April 2021.
  5. ^ Gallaire, Hervé; Minker, Jack; Nicolas, Jean-Marie (1989). "Logic and Databases: A Deductive Approach". Readings in Artificial Intelligence and Databases. pp. 231–247. doi:10.1016/B978-0-934613-53-8.50020-0. ISBN 9780934613538. Closed access icon
  6. ^ Guide to the Jack Minker Papers, P-975 at the American Jewish Historical Society, New York, NY