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Dr. Byron Cook
NationalityUnited States
Occupationcomputer science researcher
Known forTermination 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]

Cook was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineers in 2019. [5]

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
  5. ^ [https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/aws-security-profile-byron-cook-director-aws-automated-reasoning-group Amazon Web Services blog
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