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ACM SIGLOG or SIGLOG is the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation. It publishes a news magazine (SIGLOG News), and has the annual ACM-IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS) as its flagship conference. [1] In addition, it publishes an online newsletter, the SIGLOG Monthly Bulletin (formerly the LICS Newsletter), [2] and "maintains close ties" with the related academic journal ACM Transactions on Computational Logic . [3]

The creation of this special interest group was suggested in 2007 by Moshe Vardi and Dana Scott, and Vardi was the primary author of a more detailed proposal for its creation. It was founded in 2014, with Prakash Panangaden as its founding chair, and with Andrzej Murawski as the founding editor of the newsletter. [1] [4]

Alonzo Church Award

In 2015, SIGLOG established, in cooperation with EATCS, EACSL and the Kurt Gödel Society, the Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation. [5] The list of past award winners is maintained by the EACSL. [6] [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 Panangaden, Prakash (July 2014), "Welcome to SIGLOG!", Chair's Letter, SIGLOG News, 1 (1): 2–3.
  2. "SIGLOG Monthly Bulletin", SIGLOG Monthly Bulletin, 168, March 1, 2015.
  3. Official website , accessed 2015-08-13.
  4. Siekmann, Jörg M. (2014), "Computational logic", in Gabbay, Dov M.; Siekmann, Jörg M.; Woods, John (eds.), Handbook of the History of Logic, vol. 9: Computational Logic, North-Holland/Elsevier, pp. 15–30. See in particular p. 29.
  5. "NOTICES". The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic. 23 (4): 540–545. 2017. ISSN   1079-8986.
  6. "Alonzo Church Award". European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  7. "Previous Awards – EACSL" . Retrieved 2021-11-13.