Bill Roscoe
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| Bill Roscoe | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1956 Dundee, Scotland |
| Citizenship | United Kingdom |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Oxford University |
| Alma mater | Oxford University |
| Doctoral advisor | C. A. R. Hoare |
| Known for | Communicating Sequential Processes |
A. William "Bill" Roscoe is a Scottish computer scientist. He is Head of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford and a Professor of Computing Science. He is also a Fellow of University College, Oxford.
Professor Roscoe has undertaken important theoretical research work in the area of concurrency,[1] in particular the semantic underpinning of Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) and the associated occam programming language with Sir Tony Hoare.[2] He co-founded Formal Systems (Europe) Limited and worked on the algorithms for the Failures-Divergence Refinement (FDR) tool.
[edit] References
- ^ List of publications from the DBLP Bibliography Server.
- ^ Roscoe, A.W., Jones, C.B. and Wood, K. (eds.), Reflections on the Work of C.A.R. Hoare. Springer. ISBN 978-1848829114 (2010).
[edit] External links
- Department of Computer Science Staff Profile
- Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford Home Page
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