The ACM–IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS) is an annual

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on the theory and practice of

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in relation to

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. Extended versions of selected papers of each year's conference appear in renowned international journals such as

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and

ACM Transactions on Computational Logic ''ACM Transactions on Computational Logic'' (''ACM TOCL'') is a scientific journal that aims to disseminate the latest findings of note in the field of logic in computer science. It is published by the Association for Computing Machinery, a premier ...

History

LICS was originally sponsored solely by the

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, but as of the 2014 founding of the ACM Special Interest Group on Logic and Computation LICS has become the flagship conference of SIGLOG, under the joint sponsorship of ACM and IEEE. From the first installment in 1988 until 2013, the cover page of the conference proceedings has featured an artwork entitled ''Irrational Tiling by Logical Quantifiers'', by

Alvy Ray Smith Alvy Ray Smith III (born September 8, 1943) is an American computer scientist who co-founded Lucasfilm's Computer Division and Pixar, participating in the 1980s and 1990s expansion of computer animation into feature film. Education In 1965, ...

. Since 1995, each year the '' Kleene award'' is given to the best student paper. In addition, since 2006, the ''LICS Test-of-Time Award'' is given annually to one among the twenty-year-old LICS papers that have best met the test of time.LICS awards website
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LICS Awards

Test-of-Time Award

Each year, since 2006, the LICS Test-of-Time Award recognizes those articles from LICS proceedings 20 years earlier, which have become influential.

2006

* Leo Bachmair,

Nachum Dershowitz Nachum Dershowitz is an Israeli computer scientist, known e.g. for the Dershowitz–Manna ordering and the multiset path ordering used to prove termination of term rewrite systems. He obtained his B.Sc. summa cum laude in 1974 in Computer Scien ...

, Jieh Hsiang, "Orderings for Equational Proofs" * E. Allen Emerson, Chin-Laung Lei, "Efficient Model Checking in Fragments of the Propositional Mu-Calculus (Extended Abstract)" *

Moshe Y. Vardi , honorific_suffix = , image = Moshe Vardi IMG 0010.jpg , birth_date = , birth_place = Israel , workplaces = Rice UniversityIBM ResearchStanford University , alma_mater = , thesis_title = The I ...

Pierre Wolper Pierre Wolper is a Belgian computer scientist at the University of Liège. His research interests include verification methods for reactive and concurrent programs, as well as temporal databases. He is the co-recipient of the 2000 Gödel Prize, al ...

, "An Automata-Theoretic Approach to Automatic Program Verification (Preliminary Report)"

2007

Samson Abramsky Samson Abramsky (born 12 March 1953) is Professor of Computer Science at University College London. He was previously the Christopher Strachey Professor of Computing at the University of Oxford, from 2000 to 2021. He has made contributions to ...

, "Domain theory in Logical Form" *

Robert Harper Robert or Bob Harper may refer to: * Robert Almer Harper (1862–1946), American botanist * Robert Goodloe Harper (1765–1825), US senator from Maryland * Robert Harper (fl. 1734–1761), founder of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia * Robert Harper (a ...

Furio Honsell Furio Honsell (born 20 August 1958) is an Italian professor and mathematician, former Mayor of Udine. Biography Graduated in mathematics at the University of Pisa in 1980, Honsell obtained a diploma in mathematics at the Normale of Pisa in 1983 ...

, Gordon D. Plotkin, "A Framework for Defining Logics"

2008

* Martin Abadi,

Leslie Lamport Leslie B. Lamport (born February 7, 1941 in Brooklyn) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. Lamport is best known for his seminal work in distributed systems, and as the initial developer of the document preparation system LaTeX an ...

, "The existence of refinement mappings"

2009

* Eugenio Moggi, "Computational lambda-calculus and monads"

2010

Rajeev Alur Rajeev Alur is an American professor of computer science at the University of Pennsylvania who has made contributions to formal methods, programming languages, and automata theory, including notably the introduction of timed automata (Alur and D ...

, Costas Courcoubetis, David L. Dill, "Model-checking for real-time systems" * Jerry R. Burch,

Edmund Clarke Edmund Melson Clarke, Jr. (July 27, 1945 – December 22, 2020) was an American computer scientist and academic noted for developing model checking, a method for formally verifying hardware and software designs. He was the FORE Systems Professor ...

, Kenneth L. McMillan, David L. Dill, James Hwang, "Symbolic model checking: 10^20 states and beyond" * Max Dauchet, Sophie Tison, "The theory of ground rewrite systems is decidable" *

Peter Freyd Peter John Freyd (; born February 5, 1936) is an American mathematician, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for work in category theory and for founding the False Memory Syndrome Foundation. Mathematics Freyd obtained his P ...

, "Recursive types reduced to inductive types"

2011

* Patrice Godefroid,

, "A partial approach to model checking" * Joshua Hodas, Dale A. Miller, "Logic programming in a fragment of intuitionistic linear logic" * Dexter Kozen, "A completeness theorem for Kleene algebras and the algebra of regular events"

2012

Thomas Henzinger Thomas Henzinger (born 1962) is an Austrian computer scientist, researcher, and president of the Institute of Science and Technology, Austria. Life and career Henzinger was born in Austria. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science ...

, Xavier Nicollin,

Joseph Sifakis Joseph Sifakis (Greek: Ιωσήφ Σηφάκης) is a Greek- French computer scientist. He received the 2007 Turing Award, along with Edmund M. Clarke and E. Allen Emerson, for his work on model checking. Biography Joseph Sifakis was born in ...

, Sergio Yovine, "Symbolic model checking for real-time systems" *

Jean-Pierre Talpin Jean-Pierre or Jean Pierre may refer to: People * Karine Jean-Pierre b.1977, White House Deputy Press Secretary for President Joe Biden 2021- * Jean-Pierre, Count of Montalivet (1766–1823), French statesman and Peer of France * Eugenia Pierr ...

, Pierre Jouvelot, "The type and effect discipline"

2013

* Leo Bachmair,

Harald Ganzinger Harald Ganzinger (31 October 1950, Werneck – 3 June 2004, Saarbrücken) was a German computer scientist who together with Leo Bachmair developed the superposition calculus, which is (as of 2007) used in most of the state-of-the-art automated t ...

, Uwe Waldmann, "Set constraints are the monadic class" *

André Joyal André Joyal (; born 1943) is a professor of mathematics at the Université du Québec à Montréal who works on category theory. He was a member of the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study in 2013, where he was invited to jo ...

, Mogens Nielson, Glynn Winskel, "Bisimulation and open maps" *

Benjamin C. Pierce Benjamin Crawford Pierce is the Henry Salvatori Professor of computer science at the University of Pennsylvania. Pierce joined Penn in 1998 from Indiana University and held research positions at the University of Cambridge and the University of ...

Davide Sangiorgi Davide Sangiorgi is an Italian professor of computer science at the University of Bologna. He has previously held research positions at the University of Edinburgh and at Inria. He has received his PhD from the University of Edinburgh under the ...

, "Typing and subtyping for mobile processes"

2014

Martin Hofmann Martin Hofmann (born 31 March 1978) is a Czech actor. Selected filmography Film * '' Pleasant Moments'' (2006) * '' A Prominent Patient'' (2016) * '' The Affair'' (2019) * ''Women on the Run'' (2019) * '' Shotgun Justice'' (2019) * '' Havel'' ( ...

, Thomas Streicher, "The groupoid model refutes uniqueness of identity proofs" * Dale A. Miller, "A multiple-conclusion meta-logic"

2015

* Igor Walukiewicz, "Completeness of Kozen's Axiomatisation of the Propositional Mu-Calculus"

2016

* Parosh A. Abdulla, Karlis Cerans, Bengt Jonsson, Yih-Kuen Tsay, "General decidability theorems for infinite-state systems" * Iliano Cervesato,

Frank Pfenning Frank Pfenning is a German-American professor of computer science, adjunct professor in the department of philosophy, and head of the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. Education and career Pfenning grew up in Rüssels ...

, "A Linear Logical Framework"

2017

* Richard Blute, Josée Desharnais,

Abbas Edalat Abbas Edalat ( fa, عباس عدالت) is a British-Iranian academic who is a professor of computer science and mathematics at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London and a political activist. In a 2018 letter to The Guardian, 1 ...

Prakash Panangaden Prakash Panangaden is an American/Canadian computer scientist noted for his research in programming language theory, concurrency theory, Markov processes and duality theory. Earlier he worked on quantum field theory in curved space-time and radi ...

, "Bisimulation for Labelled Markov Processes" * Daniele Turi, Gordon D. Plotkin, "Towards a Mathematical Operational Semantics"

2018

Martín Abadi Martín Abadi (born 1963) is an Argentine computer scientist, working at Google . He earned his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in computer science from Stanford University in 1987 as a student of Zohar Manna. He is well known for his work on ...

, Cédric Fournet,

Georges Gonthier Georges Gonthier is a Canadian computer scientist and one of the leading practitioners in formal mathematics. He led the formalization of the four color theorem and Feit–Thompson proof of the odd-order theorem. (Both were written using the ...

, "Secure Implementation of Channel Abstractions" *

, Kohei Honda, Guy McCusker, "A Fully Abstract Game Semantics for General References"

2019

* Marcelo P. Fiore, Gordon D. Plotkin, Daniele Turi, "Abstract Syntax and Variable Binding" * Murdoch Gabbay, Andrew M. Pitts, "A New Approach to Abstract Syntax Involving Binders"

2020

* Luca de Alfaro, Thomas A. Henzinger, "Concurrent Omega-Regular Games" * Hiroshi Nakano, "A Modality for Recursion"

2021

* Aaron Stump;, Clark W. Barrett, David L. Dill, Jeremy R. Levitt, "A Decision Procedure for an Extensional Theory of Arrays" * Hongwei Xi, "Dependent Types for Program Termination Verification"

Kleene award

At each conference the Kleene award, in honour of S.C. Kleene, is given for the best student paper.

Notes

External links

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