!Martin Charles Golumbic -  A Brief Biography
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Martin Charles Golumbic is Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Caesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild Institute for Interdisciplinary Applications of Computer Science at the University of Haifa. Previously he was a research staff member and research fellow at the IBM Israel Scientific Center and Professor of Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal “Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence” and is or has been a member of the editorial boards of several other journals including “Discrete Applied Mathematics”, “Constraints” and “AI Communications”.
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Professor Golumbic received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Columbia University in 1975. Before moving to Israel in 1982, he served as assistant professor of computer science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University, visiting scientist at Université de Paris and the Weizmann Institute of Science, and worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories. He has also been a visiting professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rutgers University and Columbia University.
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He is the author of the book  “Algorithmic Graph Theory and Perfect Graphs”, coauthor of a second book “Tolerance Graphs” and has written many research articles in the areas of combinatorial mathematics, algorithmic analysis, expert systems, artificial intelligence, and programming languages. He has been a guest editor of special issues of several journals, the editor of the books “Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language and Knowledge-based Systems”, and “Graph Theory, Combinatorics and Algorithms: Interdisciplinary Applications”. His most recent book is “Fighting Terror Online: The Convergence of Security, Technology, and the Law”, published by Springer-Verlag. 
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Prof. Golumbic has been a Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications since 1995, and was elected as a Fellow of the European Artificial Intelligence society ECCAI in 2005.  He has been the chairman of over fifty national and international symposia. His current area of research is in combinatorial mathematics interacting with real world problems in computer science and artificial intelligence.  He is married and the father of four bilingual, married daughters and grandfather of (as of June 2013) three granddaughters and four grandsons.
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__ACADEMIC BACKGROUND__   
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*1970-1975 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, Ph.D. in Mathematics, May 1975.   Thesis Advisor, Samuel Eilenberg\\
*1966-1970    PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY,  M.A. in Mathematics, June 1970; B.S. in Mathematics, March 1970 
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__EDITORIAL BOARDS__ 
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*Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Editor-in-Chief, 1990-present \\
*Discrete Applied Mathematics, Member of the Editorial Board, 1985-present \\
*Int'l Journal of Expert Systems: Research and Applications, Member of the Advisory Board, 1986-1990 \\
*AI Communications, Member of the Editorial Board, 1991-1996  \\
*Constraints, Member of the Editorial Board, 1996-2004, Member of the Advisory Board, 2004-present\\
*AKCE  International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics, Member of the Editorial Board, 2004-present
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__PATENTS__ 
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 "Instruction Scheduler for a Computer", (UK9-90-035/IS) \\
        M.C. Golumbic and V. Rainish\\
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__GRADUATE STUDENTS:__   21 M.Sc.; 5 Ph.D.;  18 Postdocs\\
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__INVITED PLENARY LECTURES__  (International conferences) \\
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        Fourth Brazilian Computer Science School  \\
                San Paulo, Brazil, July 1984  \\
        International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-91)\\
                Sydney, Australia, August 1991\\
        International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Mathematical Computation\\
                Karlsruhe, Germany, August 1992\\
        American Mathematical Society, Short Course on Artificial Intelligence \\
                Orlando, Florida, January 1996\\
        Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Computing and Graph Theory\\
                Boca Raton, Florida, March 1997\\
        Workshop on Structured Families of Graphs\\
                Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 2000\\
        Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Computing and Graph Theory\\
                Boca Raton, Florida, March 2002 \\
        Andrew F. Sobczyk Memorial Lecture\\
                Clemson University, October 2003\\
        3rd Conference on Optimal Discrete Structures and Algorithms (ODSA 2006)\\
                Rostock, Germany, September 2006\\
        DIMAP Workshop on Algorithmic Graph Theory \\
                University of Warwick, UK, March 2009\\
        Latin-American Algorithms, Graphs and Optimization Symposium (LAGOS 2009)\\
                Gramado, Brazil, November 2009\\
        Southeastern International Conference on Combinatorics, Computing and Graph Theory\\
                Boca Raton, Florida, March 2011\\
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__SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION__\\
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        Int'l Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) \\
                Executive Committee, (1991-93) \\
        Israel Association for Artificial Intelligence   \\
                Chairman, (1991-96)\\
        Int'l Symposia on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics  (ISAIM)\\
                Program Chair, Jan. 1990\\
                General Chair, Jan. 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012\\
        Bar-Ilan Symposia on Foundations of Artificial Intelligence (BISFAI)\\
                 Program Chair, June 1989; General Chair, June 1991, 1993, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2005\\
        Italian-Israeli Bi-national Symposia on Artificial Intelligence   \\
                Organizing Committee, Sept. 1992; Co-chair, Nov. 1996            \\
        Oberwolfach Workshop on Discrete Mathematics in Computing        \\
                Co-chair, Nov. 1993\\
        Israeli Symposia on AI and Computer Vision \\
                Program Committee, Dec. 1988, Dec. 1990-93, Jan. 1995 \\
        French-Israeli Bi-national Symposium on Combinatorics and Algorithms   \\
                Organizing Committee, Nov. 1989 \\
        Fifth Israel Symposium on Theory of Computing and Systems, ISTCS 1997,  General Chair, June 1997\\
        Haifa Workshop on Interdisciplinary Applications of Graph Theory, Combinatorics and Algorithms   \\
                 General Chair, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 \\
        Winter Workshop Computer Science and Statistics   \\
                 Co-Chair, 2001, 2003, 2004\\
        Italian-Israeli Forum on Computer Science: Research and Applications of AI in Industry  \\
                Co-chair, June 2003 \\
        AI*IA 2005 - 9th Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence   \\
                 Program Committee, 2005 \\
        WG 2005 - 31st International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science\\
                 Program Committee, 2005 \\
        International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic Computation   (AISC)\\
                 Program Committee, 2000, 2006, 2008, 2010 \\
        Recent Trends in Graph Theory and Combinatorics, Cochin, India\\
                 Scientific Committee and Invited Speaker, 2010 \\
        Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN Conference. (LION), Italy, France\\
                 Program Committee, 2010, 2011, 2012 \\
        Dagstuhl Workshop on Exploiting Graph Structure to Cope with Hard Problems\\
                Co-chair, May. 2011\\
        WG 2012 - 38st International Workshop on Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science\\
                 Chairman, 2012 \\
        EU-FET FP7 Project: Social-IST \\
                 Member, Scientific Panel, 2012-2013\\
        EU EULER Project Summer School: Graph and Routing Dynamics: Models and Algorithms\\
                 Invited Lecturer, July 2013, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain\\
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__PUBLICATIONS __    (Full list provided separately; or see website http://www.cs.haifa.ac.il/~golumbic\\
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               3 BOOKS; 3 EDITED BOOKS; 4 BOOK CHAPTERS\\
             33 EDITED JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES: \\
                                   (5 issues in Discrete Applied Mathematics, Discrete Mathematics, Annals of Operations Research\\
                                   and 28 issues in Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence)\\
            108 PAPERS: \\
                           62 in REFEREED JOURNALS\\
                           32 in REFEREED PROCEEDINGS \\
                           14 in UNREFEREED PROCEEDINGS or REPORTS CITED IN THE LITERATURE