o Member of the jury of “Prémio Científico IBM-Portugal”, 1990-2010.
o 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-
o 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
ECCAI Fellow
by the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence, 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 Award,
AIMSA'96 conference, 1996.
o Prémio da
Boa Esperança, highest
Portuguese government award in science, 1994. Speech
o Logic-Deductive
Sciences Award,
from Gulbenkian Foundation, 1984.
·
Two MSc students won
the AI
project prize
from APPIA, the Portuguese AI Association, in 2006 and 2008.
· Two PhD students won the Prémio Científico IBM, in Portugal, in 1990 and 1993.