Amir Pnueli
Amir Pnueli | |
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אמיר פנואלי | |
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| Born | April 22, 1941 |
| Died | 2 November 2009 (aged 68) |
| Education | Israel Institute of Technology (BS) Weizmann Institute of Science (MS, PhD) |
| Awards | Turing Award (1996) Israel Prize |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | Tel Aviv University Weizmann Institute New York University University of Pennsylvania Stanford University |
| Doctoral students | |
Amir Pnueli (Hebrew: אמיר פנואלי; April 22, 1941 – November 2, 2009) was an Israeli computer scientist and the 1996 Turing Award recipient.
Biography
[edit]Pnueli was born in Nahalal, in the British Mandate of Palestine (now in Israel). He attended Tichon Hadash high school in Tel Aviv.[1] He received a Bachelor's degree in mathematics from the Technion in Haifa, and Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the Weizmann Institute of Science (1967).[2] His thesis was on the topic of "Calculation of Tides in the Ocean". He switched to computer science during a stint as a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University. His works in computer science focused on temporal logic and model checking, particularly regarding fairness properties of concurrent systems.[3]
He returned to Israel as a researcher; he was the founder and first chair of the computer science department at Tel Aviv University. He became a professor of computer science at the Weizmann Institute in 1981. From 1999 until his death, Pnueli also held a position at the Computer Science Department of New York University, New York, U.S.[3] He's also served as an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the Joseph Fourier University.[4]
Pnueli also founded two startup technology companies during his career. He had three children and, at his death, had four grandchildren.[3]
Pnueli died on November 2, 2009, of a brain hemorrhage.[3][5][6]
Awards and honours
[edit]- In 1996, Pnueli received the Turing Award for seminal work introducing temporal logic into computing science and for outstanding contributions to program and systems verification.
- On May 30, 1997, Pnueli received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Science and Technology at Uppsala University, Sweden.[7]
- In 1999, he was inducted as a Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.
- In 2000, he was awarded the Israel Prize, for computer science.[8][9]
- In 2007, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
- The Weizmann Institute of Science presents a memorial lecture series in his honour.[10]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Amir Pnueli biography in the official Israel Prize site (in Hebrew)
- ^ "Amir Pnueli". The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ a b c d Chang, Kenneth (November 14, 2009), "Amir Pnueli, Pioneer of Temporal Logic, Dies at 68", The New York Times.
- ^ "AMIR PNUELI". amturing.acm. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
- ^ "NYU Computer Science Professor Amir Pnueli, 68", Dr. Dobb's, November 5, 2009.
- ^ NYU Professor Amir Pnueli, 68, Distinguished Computer Scientist, New York University Computer Science Department, archived from the original on 9 November 2009, retrieved 2009-11-08.
- ^ "Honorary doctorates - Uppsala University, Sweden". 9 June 2023.
- ^ "Israel Prize Official Site (in Hebrew) – Recipient's C.V."
- ^ "Israel Prize Official Site (in Hebrew) – Judges' Rationale for Grant to Recipient".
- ^ "Faculty of Mathematics & Computer Science". www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il. Retrieved 2025-06-27.
External links
[edit]- New York University homepage
- Weizmann Institute homepage
- Amir Pnueli at DBLP Bibliography Server
- 1941 births
- 2009 deaths
- 2007 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
- Formal methods people
- Israeli Jews
- Israel Prize in computer sciences recipients
- Jewish scientists
- Members of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty
- People from Nahalal
- Programming language researchers
- Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni
- Academic staff of Tel Aviv University
- Israeli theoretical computer scientists
- Turing Award laureates
- Academic staff of Weizmann Institute of Science
- Polytechnic Institute of New York University faculty
- Foreign associates of the National Academy of Engineering
- Tichon Hadash high school alumni