Honors and Awards
In 1982, Alain Colmerauer shared with Henry Kanoui and Michel Van Caneghem la Pomme d’Or du Logiciel Francais, an award from Apple France for the Prolog II implementation. In 1984, he received an award by the Conseil Regional of Provence, Alpes and Côte d’Azur, and in 1985 the Michel Monpetit Award, from the French Academy of Sciences. In 1986, he was made Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur by the French government. He became Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence in 1991, and received the ACP Research Excellence Award, Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming in 2008. He is also a Correspondent of the French Academy of Sciences in the area of Mathematics.
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