Ronald Fagin
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Ronald Fagin
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| Born | 1945 Oklahoma City, OK, USA |
| Residence | Los Gatos, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields |
Logic in Computer Science, Database theory, Finite model theory, Rank and score aggregation, Reasoning about knowledge |
| Institutions | IBM Almaden Research Center |
| Alma mater |
Dartmouth College, University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Lawson Vaught |
| Known for | Fagin's theorem |
| Notable awards |
Gödel prize (2014), W. Wallace McDowell Award (2012), SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award (2004) |
Ronald Fagin (born 1945) is an American mathematician and computer scientist, and IBM Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center. He is known for his work in database theory, finite model theory, and reasoning about knowledge.
Ron Fagin was born and grew up in Oklahoma City, where he attended Northwest Classen High School. Following that, he completed his undergraduate degree at Dartmouth College. Fagin received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1973, where he worked under the supervision of Robert Vaught.
He joined the IBM Research Division in 1973, spending two years at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and then transferred in 1975 to what is now the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California.
He has served as program committee chair for ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems 1984, Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about Knowledge 1994, ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing 2005, and the International Conference on Database Theory 2009.
Fagin has received numerous professional awards for his work. He was elected Member of the National Academy of Engineering, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, IBM Fellow, ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He won the 2014 Gödel Prize and he received a Docteur Honoris Causa from the University of Paris. The IEEE granted him the IEEE W. Wallace McDowell Award and the IEEE Technical Achievement Award; the ACM granted him the ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award and IBM granted him eight IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards, two IBM supplemental Patent Issue Awards, given for key IBM patents, the IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, and two IBM Corporate Awards. Fagin is listed among the "Highly Cited Researchers." He won Best Paper awards at the 1985 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the 2001 ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, the 2010 International Conference on Database Theory, and the 2015 International Conference on Database Theory. He won 10-year Test-of-Time Awards at the 2011 ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, the 2013 International Conference on Database Theory, and the 2014 ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems.
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