Joseph Halpern

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Joseph Yehuda Halpern
Dijkstra Prize (2009)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsCornell University
Doctoral studentsNir Friedman, Daphne Koller, Yoram Moses

Joseph Yehuda Halpern (born May 29, 1953) is an Israeli-American professor of computer science at Cornell University. Most of his research is on reasoning about knowledge and uncertainty.

Biography

Halpern graduated in 1975 from

Dijkstra Prize
in distributed computing.

From 1997 to 2003, he was editor-in-chief of the Journal of the ACM.[1]

In 2002, he was inducted as a

IEEE Fellow.[2]
In 2011, he was awarded a Senior Fellowship of the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz.[3]

In 2019, Halpern was elected a member of the National 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 of

arXiv.org, and the moderator for the "general literature" and "other" subsections of the repository.[4]

His students include Nir Friedman, Daphne Koller, and Yoram Moses.[5]

References

  1. ^ "History | Journal of the ACM". jacm.acm.org. Archived from the original on 2011-10-26. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
  2. ^ 2012 Newly Elevated Fellows, IEEE, accessed 2011-12-10.
  3. ^ "Zukunftskolleg | University of Konstanz".
  4. arxiv.org
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  5. ^ Joseph Halpern at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

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