Veronica Dahl

The 1993 International Logic Programming Symposium was held in Vancouver, British Columbia, on 26-29 October. It presented the state of the art in logic programming, emphasizing the deliberate interaction with other fields, in particular, humanistic fields. Topics covered at the symposium included algorithmic analysis, programming methodologies, semantic analysis, deductive databases, and programming language design. The years of unrelenting development by these pioneers and other wonderful people have brought the field to a stage of maturity that makes more deliberate interactions with other fields possible and desirable and that gives us enough perspective to consider our field from wider viewpoints, such as the philosophical. The 1993 International Logic Programming Symposium, held in Vancouver, British Columbia, on 26-29 October, presented the state of the art in logic programming and also emphasized these other viewpoints.