LPA was established to exploit research at the Department of Computing and Control at Imperial College London into logic programming carried out under the supervision of Prof Robert Kowalski.
One of the first Prolog implementations made available by LPA was micro-PROLOG[2] which ran on popular 8-bit home computers such as the Sinclair ZX Spectrum[3] and Apple II.
As well as continuing with Prolog compiler technology development, LPA has a track record of creating innovative associated tools and products to address specific challenges and opportunities.
Flex was quickly established as the leading Prolog-based expert system toolkit and was licensed to other Prolog providors on other hardware platforms including Telecomputing Plc to supplement Top One on IBM and ICL mainframes.
Between 1996 and 1998, based on work co-funded through a DTI Smart award, LPA developed ScaffoldIT,[12][13] a tool for building dynamic documents and intelligent web sites.
In 1999/2000, LPA helped set up Business Integrity Ltd, as a Joint Venture with Tarlo-Lyons, to bring the above document assembly technology to market.
Partners and GCs liked Contract Express because lawyers were able to quickly and accurately automate and update their legal templates in Word without requiring IT specialists to convert them into programs.
[17] For many years, LPA has worked closely with Valdis Krebs, an American-Latvian researcher, author, and consultant in the field of social and organizational network analysis.