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David Barker-Plummer
Lecturer

Office: CSLI
Mailing:
Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI),
Stanford University,
Stanford, California, 94305-4115
Phone: (650) 723-9030
Email: dbp@csli.stanford.edu

Personal Portrait

Education History

BA, University of Lancaster, UK, 1982
PhD, University of Edinburgh, UK, 1988

Areas of Interest
heterogeneous logic, logic education, educational software, automated deduction
Selected Publications
Books and Collections:
  • D. Barker-Plummer, J. Barwise, and J. Etchemendy Tarski's World (Revised and Expanded Edition). CSLI Press, to appear 2005.
  • D. Barker-Plummer, D. Beaver, P. di Luzio and J. van Benthem, editors. Words, Proofs and Diagrams CSLI Press, 2002.
  • J. Barwise, J. Etchemendy, G. Allwein, D. Barker-Plummer and A. Liu. Language, Proof and Logic CSLI Press, 1999.
Chapters:
  • D. Barker-Plummer and J. Etchemendy Visual decision making: A computational architecture for heterogeneous reasoning. In B. Kovalerchuk and J. Schwing, editors, Visual and Spatial Analysis: Advances in Data Mining, Reasoning and Problem Solving, pages 79--109, Springer 2004
  • D. Barker-Plummer and S.C. Bailin On the practical semantics of mathematical diagrams. In Anderson, M. Meyer, B. and Olivier, P (editors), Diagrammatic Representation and Reasoning. Springer Verlag, 2001.
Journal Articles:
  • S.C. Bailin and D. Barker-Plummer. Z-match: An inference rule for incrementally elaborating set instantiations. Journal of Automated Reasoning, 11(3):391--428,1993.
  • D. Barker-Plummer. Gazing: An approach to the problem of definition and lemma use. Journal of Automated Reasoning, 8(3):311--344, 1992
  • D. Barker-Plummer and S.C. Bailin The role of diagrams in mathematical proofs. Machine Graphics and Vision, 6(1):25
  • D. Barker-Plummer and J. Etchemendy Applications of heterogeneous reasoning in design. Machine Graphics and Vision, 12(1):39
  • D. Barker-Plummer and J. Etchemendy A computational architecture for heterogeneous reasoning. Journal of Theoretical and Experimental Artificial Intelligence (JETAI), to appear.

Recent Courses
57: Logic, Argumentation and Reasoning, 159: Basic Concepts in Mathematical Logic, 160a: First-Order Logic
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