The volume is the outgrowth of a workshop with the same title held at MSRI in the week of November 13-17, 1989, and for those who did not get it, Logic from Computer Science is the converse of Logic in Computer Science, the full name of the highly successful annual LICS conferences. We meant to have a conference which would bring together the LICS commu­ nity with some of the more traditional "mathematical logicians" and where the emphasis would be on the flow of ideas from computer science to logic rather than the other way around. In a LICS talk, sometimes, the speaker presents a perfectly good theorem about (say) the A-calculus or finite model theory in terms of its potential applications rather than its (often more ob­ vious) intrinsic, foundational interest and intricate proof. This is not meant to be a criticism; the LICS meetings are, after all, organized by the IEEE Computer Society. We thought, for once, it would be fun to see what we would get if we asked the speakers to emphasize the relevance of their work for logic rather than computer science and to point out what is involved in the proofs. I think, mostly, it worked. In any case, the group of people represented as broad a selection of logicians as I have seen in recent years, and the quality of the talks was (in my view) exceptionally, unusually high. I learned a lot and (I think) others did too.

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Preface.- The Imperative Future: Past Successes Future Actions.- A Logical Operational Semantics of Full Prolog: Part III. Built-in Predicates for Files, Terms, Arithmetic and Input-Output.- Computability and Complexity of Higher Type Functions.- Constructively Equivalent Propositions and Isomorphisms of Objects, or Terms as Natural Transfomrations.- Logics for Termination and Correctness of Functional Programs.- Transparent Grammars.- Designing Unification Procedures Using Transformations: A survey.- NormaL Forms and Cut-Free Proofs as Natural Transformations.- Computer Implementation and Applications of Kleene's S-M-N and Recursion Theorems.- 0-1 Laws for Fragments of Second-Order Logic: an Overview.- No Counter-Example Interpretation and Interactive Computation.- Semantic Characterizations of Number Theories.- Constructive Kripke Semantics and Realizability.- Splitting and Density for the Recursive Sets of a Fixed Time Complexity.- Reals and Forcing with an Elementary Topos.- Completeness Theorems for Logics of Feature Structures.- Concurrent Programs as Strategies in Games.- Finite and Infinite Dialogues.- Some Relations Between Subsystems of Arithmetic and Complexity of Computations.- Logics for Negation as Failure.- Normal Varieties of Combinators.- Complexity of Proofs in Classical Propositional Logic.