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Jan Wielemaker (1960, Koudekerke) is a Dutch computer scientist. He initiated the
SWI-Prolog SWI-Prolog is a free implementation of the programming language Prolog, commonly used for teaching and semantic web applications. It has a rich set of features, libraries for constraint logic programming, multithreading, unit testing, GUI, int ...
implementation of the
Prolog Prolog is a logic programming language that has its origins in artificial intelligence, automated theorem proving, and computational linguistics. Prolog has its roots in first-order logic, a formal logic. Unlike many other programming language ...
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in 1987 while employed at the
University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, ) is a public university, public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Established in 1632 by municipal authorities, it is the fourth-oldest academic institution in the Netherlan ...
, and he continued its development after moving to the
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam The (abbreviated as ''VU Amsterdam'' or simply ''VU'' when in context) is a public university, public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 1880. The VU Amsterdam is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in ...
. Since 2017, he has been associated with the
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica The (abbr. CWI; English: "National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science") is a research centre in the field of mathematics and theoretical computer science. It is part of the institutes organization of the Dutch Research Cou ...
. In 2020, he became the Director of SWI-Prolog Solutions b.v. He is known for being the original author and one of the most extensive contributors to the SWI-Prolog, as well as the SWI-Prolog reference manual.


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1960 births Dutch computer scientists Living people 21st-century Dutch scientists Logic programming researchers {{Netherlands-academic-bio-stub