Co- Founder of the discipline Logic Programming (with 14 other international scientists) Professor Emeritus of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University Associate Faculty in Bioinformatics, Simon Fraser University Associate Faculty in Cognitive Science, Simon Fraser University Scientific Advisory Board Member, IMDEA-Software (2007-) Marie Curie Chair of Excellence from the European Commission, URV (2008-2011) Member, Killam Selection Committee, Canada Council for the Arts (2007-2010) Former Board Member and Publications Director, Science for Peace Past President, Association for Logic Programming, Area Coordinator (Natural Language Processing), Compulog Americas Coordinator of the SIG Computational Logic and Natural Language Processing (CL&NLP) (a joint initiative of Compulog Net and Compulog Americas) Steering Committee Member, CSS and Cognitive Sciences Pgm, SFU