11 Facts About Ronald Fagin

Ronald Fagin was born on 1945 and is an American mathematician and computer scientist, and IBM Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center.

Ronald Fagin is known for his work in database theory, finite model theory, and reasoning about knowledge.

Ron Fagin was born and grew up in Oklahoma City, where he attended Northwest Classen High School.

Ronald Fagin was later elected to the Northwest Classen Hall of Fame.

Ronald Fagin joined the IBM Research Division in 1973, spending two years at the Thomas J Watson Research Center, and then transferred in 1975 to what is the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California.

Ronald Fagin has served as program committee chair for ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems 1984, Theoretical Aspects of Reasoning about Knowledge 1994, ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing 2005, and the International Conference on Database Theory 2009.

Ronald Fagin is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Ronald Fagin received a Docteur Honoris Causa from the University of Paris, and a Laurea Honoris Causa from the University of Calabria in Italy.

Ronald Fagin won Best Paper awards at the 1985 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the 2001 ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, the 2010 International Conference on Database Theory, and the 2015 International Conference on Database Theory.

Ronald Fagin won 10-year Test-of-Time Awards at the 2011 ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, the 2013 International Conference on Database Theory, and the 2014 ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems.

Ronald Fagin has authored or co-authored numerous articles, and a book:.