Byron Cook (computer scientist)

Dr. Byron Cook
Nationality United States
Occupation computer science researcher
Known for Termination analysis

Dr. Byron Cook is an American computer science researcher at University College London.[1] Byron's research interests include program analysis/verification, programming languages, theorem proving, logic, hardware design, and operating systems. Byron's recent work has been focused on the development of automatic tools for

  • Proving properties of biological models,
  • Termination and liveness proving,[2] and
  • Discovering invariants regarding mutable data structures.[3]

Awards and Prizes

In 2009, Cook won the Roger Needham Award. His public lecture was on "Proving that programs eventually do something good".[4]

References

  1. ↑ "University College London".
  2. ↑ "T2 project website". Archived from the original on 2015-06-26.
  3. ↑ "SLAyer project website". Archived from the original on 2008-12-08.
  4. ↑ Roger Needham Award at BCS website
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.