In functional logic languages, an if statement can either succeed and produce a value or fail, allowing for more reliable conditional operations compared to traditional boolean expressions.

Verse is a functional logic programming language designed for large-scale simulation programming, allowing for the creation of components that can be used by millions of programmers.

I envision a future where programming will involve defining logic in a more human-readable format, moving away from traditional coding languages.

Mapping natural language to formal programming languages is extremely difficult, as formal languages require precise syntax, while natural language is more fault-tolerant.

We generated about 4,000 possible laws of algebra that certain operations can satisfy, and we investigate which laws imply others. For example, commutativity does not imply associativity, as there are operations that obey commutativity but not associativity.

The early programming language designers established key concepts like how functions, variables, and recursion should work, which are still relevant today.

The distinction between agents and functions is blurred, as both can involve multiple functions with language models in the middle, making them appear similar from an external perspective.

The future of operating systems may involve less traditional code, relying more on generative models that blur the lines between deterministic and non-deterministic systems.

My thesis focused on using logic programming and Prolog-type languages to speed up query answering by maintaining a record of relationships between established facts and theorems.