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In Memoriam: RAYMOND REITER June 12, 1939 – September 16, 2002

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2002

Jack Minker
Affiliation:
University of Maryland
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Raymond Reiter, Professor of computer science at the University of Toronto, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and winner of the 1993 – IJCAI Outstanding Research Scientist Award, died September 16, 2002, after a year-long struggle with cancer. Reiter, known throughout the world as “Ray,” made foundational contributions to artificial intelligence, knowledge representation and databases, and theorem proving.

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© 2003 Cambridge University Press

Footnotes

Much of this memoriam is taken from unpublished remarks I made on introducing Ray Reiter on the occasion of his receiving the Research Excellence Award at the 1993 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-93). To gain a better perspective of Ray as a person, I solicited comments from some of his former students: Dave Etherington, and Iluju Kiringa; from his colleagues: Hector Levesque, Fiora Pirri, and Richard Rosenberg; from his friend Avis Lang; and from his brother, Jack Reiter. A color photograph of Raymond Reiter can be found on the World Wide Web at: http://prism.cs.umd.edu/papers/Min02:reiter_memoriam/Min02:reiter_memoriam.html