Manuel Hermenegildo, Institute Director, was, with Professors Michael Leuschel (University of Düsseldorf) and Antonio Porto (University of Lisbon) part of the winning team of the 18th Prolog Programming Contest at the 27th International Conference on Logic Programming in Lexington, Kentucky, USA. Of course, this was done using Ciao which was duly declared “this year’s Prolog system of choice.” And all of this while having to endure being continuously referred to by the contest organizers as the “old boys” team…