Byron Cook (computer scientist)
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Dr. Byron Cook | |
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Nationality | American |
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
[edit]In 2009, Cook won the Roger Needham Award. His public lecture was on "Proving that programs eventually do something good".[4]
Cook was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineers in 2019.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "University College London".
- ^ "T2 project website". Archived from the original on 26 June 2015.
- ^ "SLAyer project website". Archived from the original on 8 December 2008.
- ^ Roger Needham Award at BCS website
- ^ Amazon Web Services blog