Research interests:

Logic

• Relevant logic
• Other substructural logics
• Paraconsistency
• Temporal logic
• MaGIC

• ROO (Radically Optimized Otter)
• SCOTT (Semantically Constrained Otter)
• Miscellaneous contributions

• Constraint satisfaction
• Search
• Planning

Duties:

Professor in the Computer Sciences Laboratory, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering. Formerly head of Automated Reasoning Group (1991 to 2008).

Former leader of the Logic and Computation Program in NICTA (National ICT Centre of Excellence, Australia).

Instigator and convenor of the annual Logic Summer School.

Bio:

I was born in England but escaped, taught logic in philosophy departments for several years, escaped again and moved to Canberra in 1988 where I have been automating reasoning ever since.

I like doing this. The ANU is a fantastic place to be a researcher, Canberra is a better city to live in than you would believe from listening to Australians from anywhere else, NICTA is the most exciting research lab I know, and I actually get paid for thinking about logic and hacking code! That's as good as it gets.

Other likes: travel, good food (enthusiastic but inexpert cook), classical music (ditto pianist).

Dislikes: no really interesting ones (sorry).

Research opportunities with Dr John SLANEY

• Visualising Proof Search
• A web-based logic teaching tool
• Best-first proof search for non-classical logics
• Practical deduction via dynamic semantic resolution