Biographical Sketch

Michael Genesereth is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University and a professor by courtesy in the Stanford Law School. He received his Sc.B. in Physics from M.I.T. and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University. Genesereth is most known for his work on Computational Logic and applications of that work in Enterprise Management, Computational Law, and General Game Playing. He is one of the founders of Teknowledge, CommerceNet, and Mergent Systems. Genesereth is the current director of the Logic Group at Stanford and research director of CodeX (the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics).

Recently Requested Papers and Books

• The Herbrand Manifesto - Thinking Inside the Box
• General Game Playing
• Computational Law - The Cop in the Backseat


• Data Integration - The Relational Logic Approach
• Introduction to Logic
• General Game Playing