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Pascal Van Hentenryck is professor of computer science at Brown
University. Before coming to Brown in 1990, he spent four years at the
European Computer-Industry Research Center (ECRC), where he was the
main designer and implementor of the CHIP programming system, one of
the pioneering constraint programming systems. His research on CHIP,
described in his 1989 MIT Press book Constraint Satisfaction in Logic
Programming, is the foundation of all modern constraint programming
systems. During the last 15 years, he developed a number of
influential systems, including the Numerica system for global
optimization, the optimization programming language OPL, and the
constraint-based local-search system Comet. Pascal is the recipient of
an 1993 NSF National Young Investigator (NYI) award, the 2002 INFORMS
ICS Award for research excellence at the interface between computer
science and operations research, the 2006 ACP Award for Research
Excellence in Constraint Programming, best and distinguished paper
awards at CP'03, CP'04, and IJCAI'07, and an IBM Faculty Award in
2004. He is the author of five books (all published by the MIT Press)
and of more than 150 scientific papers.
