Joseph Yehuda Halpern | |
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 Joseph Halpern at theEPFL in June 2008 | |
| Born | May 29th, 1953 Israel |
| Awards | Gödel Prize(1997) Allen Newell Award(2008) Dijkstra Prize(2009) |
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| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Cornell University |
| Doctoral students | Nir Friedman,Daphne Koller,Yoram Moses |
Joseph Yehuda Halpern (born May 29, 1953) is an Israeli-American professor ofcomputer science atCornell University. Most of his research is on reasoning about knowledge and uncertainty.
Halpern graduated in 1975 fromUniversity of Toronto with a B.S. in mathematics. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics fromHarvard University in 1981 under the supervision ofAlbert R. Meyer andGerald Sacks. He has written three books,Actual Causality,Reasoning about Uncertainty, andReasoning About Knowledge and is a winner of the 1997Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science and the 2009Dijkstra Prize in distributed computing.
From 1997 to 2003, he was editor-in-chief of theJournal of the ACM.[1]
In 2002, he was inducted as aFellow of theAssociation for Computing Machinery and in 2012 he was selected as anIEEE Fellow.[2]In 2011, he was awarded a Senior Fellowship of the Zukunftskolleg at theUniversity of Konstanz.[3]
In 2019, Halpern was elected a member of theNational Academy of Engineering for methods of reasoning about knowledge, belief, and uncertainty and their applications to distributed computing and multiagent systems.
Halpern is also the administrator for the Computing Research Repository, the computer science branch ofarXiv.org, and the moderator for the "general literature" and "other" subsections of the repository.[4]
His students includeNir Friedman,Daphne Koller, andYoram Moses.[5]
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