Joseph Halpern

Joseph Halpern

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name = Joseph Yehuda Halpern


caption = Joseph Halpern at the EPFL in June 2008
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field = Computer Science
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work_institutions = Cornell University
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doctoral_students = Francis Chu, Nir Friedman, Adam Grove, Daphne Koller, Li Li, Yoram Moses, Leandro Rego
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prizes = Gödel Prize 1997
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Joseph Yehuda Halpern is a professor of computer science at Cornell University. Most of his research is on reasoning about knowledge and uncertainty.

Halpern graduated in 1975 from University of Toronto with a B.S. in mathematics. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard University in 1981 under the supervision of Albert Meyer and Gerald Sacks. He has written two books, "Reasoning about Uncertainty" and "Reasoning About Knowledge" and is a winner of the 1997 Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science. In 2002 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Halpern is also the administrator for the Computing Research Repository, the computer science branch of arXiv.org, and the moderator for the “general literature” and “other” subsections of the repository. [ [http://arxiv.org/corr/subjectclasses Subject areas and moderators] , arxiv.org.]

His students include Nir Friedman, Daphne Koller, and Yoram Moses.

References

External links

* [http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/halpern/ Joe Halpern's homepage]


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