Raymond Reiter was a prominent computer scientist known for his significant contributions to the fields of artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, and automated reasoning. He is particularly recognized for his work on nonmonotonic reasoning and the development of formal approaches to reasoning about actions and change, including his formulation of the situation calculus and the concept of preferential models. Reiter's work has had a lasting impact on AI, influencing how we understand and formalize various aspects of intelligent behavior and reasoning in machines.
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