Raymond Reiter

Raymond Reiter FRSC (/ˈraɪtər/; June 12, 1939 – September 16, 2002) was a Canadian computer scientist and logician. He was one of the founders of the field of non-monotonic reasoning with his work on default logic, model-based diagnosis, closed-world reasoning, and truth maintenance systems. He also contributed to the situation calculus.^[3][1][4][5]

Raymond Reiter FRSC
Born	(1939-06-12)June 12, 1939
Died	September 16, 2002(2002-09-16) (aged 63)
Alma mater	University of Michigan (PhD)
Awards	ACM Fellow AAAI Fellow IJCAI Award for Research Excellence
Scientific career
Fields	Non-monotonic logic
Institutions	University of Toronto
Thesis	A Study of a Model for Parallel Computations (1967)
Doctoral advisor	Harvey Garner Richard M. Karp[1]
Doctoral students	Sheila McIlraith[1][2]

Awards and honors

He was a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), an AAAI Fellow, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He won the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence in 1993.

Publications

• R. Reiter (1978). On closed world data bases. In H. Gallaire and J. Minker, editors, Logic and Data Bases, pages 119–140. Plenum., New York.
• R. Reiter (1980). A logic for default reasoning. Artificial Intelligence, 13:81-132.
• R. Reiter (1987). A theory of diagnosis from first principles. Artificial Intelligence, 32:57-95.
• R. Reiter (1991). The frame problem in the situation calculus: a simple solution (sometimes) and a completeness result for goal regression. In Vladimir Lifschitz, editor, Artificial Intelligence and Mathematical Theory of Computation: Papers in Honor of John McCarthy, pages 359–380. Academic Press, New York.
• R. Reiter (2001) Knowledge in Action: Logical Foundations for Specifying and Implementing Dynamical Systems (448 pp.). The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England.
• R. Reiter and J. de Kleer (1987). Foundations of assumption-based truth maintenance systems: Preliminary report. In Proceedings of the Sixth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'87), pages 183–188.
• H. Levesque, F. Pirri, and R. Reiter (1998). Foundations for the situation calculus Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, 2(3–4):159-178.
• F. Pirri and R. Reiter (1999). Some contributions to the metatheory of the Situation Calculus Journal of the ACM, 46(3):325–361. doi:10.1145/316542.316545

References

1. Raymond Reiter at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
2. McIlraith, Sheila Ann (1997). Towards a formal account of diagnostic problem solving. utoronto.ca (PhD thesis). hdl:1807/10895. OCLC 46561408.
3. Raymond Reiter at DBLP Bibliography Server
4. In Memoriam - Raymond Reiter, by Jack Minker
5. In Memory of Ray Reiter (1939-2002)