Les travaux de Moshe Vardi (Rice University) couvrent un spectre très large en Informatique, avec des contributions majeures en model checking, satisfaction de contraintes, théorie des bases de données, représentation de connaissances, et complexité. Il a obtenu de nombreuses distinctions (3 "IBM Ouststanding Innovation Awards", Godel Prize in 2000, ACM Theory and Practice Award in 2005, LICS Test-of-Time Award in 2006).

 Voir aussi :
— Séminaire INRIA et Séminaire des "Keynotes du LIG" du 04/11/210 : "2 séminaires exceptionnels.... G. Berry et M. Vardi"
— Séminaire VERIMAG du 05/11/2010 : "Moshe Vardi - From Philosophical to Industrial Logics"
— Toutes les Keynotes du LIG

During the past fifty years there has been extensive, continuous, and growing interaction between logic and computer science. In fact, logic has been called "the calculus of computer science". The argument is that logic plays a fundamental role in computer science, similar to that played by calculus in the physical sciences and traditional engineering disciplines. Indeed, logic plays an important role in areas of computer science as disparate as architecture (logic gates), software engineering (specification and verification), programming languages (semantics, logic programming), databases (relational algebra and SQL), artificial intelligence (automated theorem proving), algorithms (complexity and expressiveness), and theory of computation (general notions of computability). This non-technical talk will provide an overview of the unusual effectiveness of logic in computer science by surveying the history of logic in computer science, going back all the way to Aristotle and Euclid, and showing how logic actually gave rise to computer science.