Bill Roscoe

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Bill Roscoe
Born1956
NationalityScottish
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
Alma materOxford University
Known forCommunicating Sequential Processes
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsOxford University
Doctoral advisorC. A. R. Hoare

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.

References

  1. ^ Bill Roscoe at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Roscoe, A.W., Jones, C.B. and Wood, K. (eds.), Reflections on the Work of C.A.R. Hoare. Springer. ISBN 978-1-84882-911-4 (2010).

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