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The Birth of Prolog

Era: AI Winter · 1970s–1990s

Alain Colmerauer, Philippe Roussel, and their collaborators developed the first version of Prolog in Marseille, applying predicate logic to programming and advancing logic programming and symbolic AI.

Alain Colmerauer & Philippe Roussel

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  1. The birth of Prolog

    Inria · Source type: institutional-archive

    Inria’s history attributes Prolog’s creation to the Marseille group in 1972.

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