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Elected member of the Academia
Europaea https://www.ae-info.org/, 2023.
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Elected AAIA Fellow by the Asia-Pacific
Artificial Intelligence Association https://aaia-ai.org,
2022.
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Elected to Conselho Geral (approves
statutes, appoints rector, etc.) of Universidade de Évora, October 2021-
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Awarded the title Professor
Emeritus of Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2021.
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Awarded the Portuguese National Medal of Scientific Merit, 2019.
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Member of the jury of “Prémio Científico
IBM-Portugal”, 1990-2010.
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Member of the Board of Trustees and Scientific
Council of IMDEA-Software, Madrid
Institute for Advanced Studies in Software Development Technologies
http://software.imdea.org/ 2006-
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Doctor Honoris Causa (Dr.-Ing.), from T.U. Dresden,
December 2006.
Acceptance speech and talk—The Cupola of Logic in the Unity of Sciences – Towards an Evolutionary
Epistemology—on the occasion of his Honorary Doctorate Degree ceremony,
T.U. Dresden, Germany, December 4, 2006. Speech
Slides
Speech
and talk Audio
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o Prémio Estímulo
à Excelência, Distinguished Scientist Award, from the Portuguese
government, 2005.
o Elected Visiting Fellow of the “Istituto di Studi Avanzati”, U. Bologna,
Academic Year 2004.
o Elected EurAI Fellow by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial
Intelligence (EurAI),
former ECCAI, 2001.
o In 1997, the Association of Logic
Programming (ALP) bestowed to fifteen recognized researchers in logic
programming the title Founders of Logic
Programming to recognize them as pioneers in the field. The individuals
receiving this honor were: Maurice Bruynooghe
(Belgium), Jacques Cohen (USA), Alain Colmerauer
(France), Keith Clark (UK), Veronica Dahl (Canada/Argentina), Maarten van Emden
(Canada), Herve Gallaire (France), Robert Kowalski
(UK), Jack Minker (USA), Fernando Pereira (USA), Luis Moniz Pereira (Portugal), Ray
Reiter (Canada), Alan Robinson (USA), Peter Szeredi
(Hungary), and David H. D. Warren (UK). 1997.
o Best Paper Awards:
AIMSA conference, 1996, and ICACSIS
conference, 2017.
o Prémio da Boa Esperança, highest Portuguese government award
in science, 1994. Speech
o Logic-Deductive Sciences Award,
from Gulbenkian Foundation, 1984.
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Two MSc students won the AI project prize from APPIA,
the Portuguese AI Association, in 2006
and 2008.
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Two PhD
students won the Prémio Científico IBM,
in Portugal, in 1990 and 1993.