Byron Cook (computer scientist)
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Dr. Byron Cook is an American computer science researcher at University College London.{{cite web|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/|title=University College London}} 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,{{cite web|url=http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/t2/ |title=T2 project website |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626172004/http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/t2/ |archivedate=2015-06-26 }} and
- Discovering invariants regarding mutable data structures.{{cite web |url=http://research.microsoft.com/slayer |title=SLAyer project website |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081208053256/http://research.microsoft.com/SLAyer/ |archivedate=2008-12-08 }}
Awards and Prizes
In 2009, Cook won the Roger Needham Award. His public lecture was on "Proving that programs eventually do something good".[http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.5941 Roger Needham Award] at BCS website
Cook was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2019.{{Cite web |title=Byron Cook |url=https://raeng.org.uk/about-us/fellowship/new-fellows-2019/byron-cook |access-date=2025-02-25 |website=Royal Academy of Engineering |language=en}}
References
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External links
- http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/b.cook/
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