Career
His research is in the field of logic programming and in knowledge representation, reasoning and cognitive science more generally. He is also advisory editor of the International Journal of Reasoning-Based Intelligent Systems and Associate Editor for Artificial Intelligence of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Computing Surveys. He was awarded the Doctor honoris causa by the Technical University of Dresden in 2006, and became an ECCAI Fellow in 2001.
He coordinates the Erasmus Mundus European Master of Science in Computational Logic at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is vice-president of EASE, the European Association for semantic Web Education, and belongs to the Board of Trustees and to the Scientific Advisory Board of IMDEA – Madrid Advanced Studies Institute (Software).
