Jim Davies (computer scientist)
Jim Davies is Professor of Software Engineering and current Director of the Software Engineering Programme at the University of Oxford, England.[1]
Biography
Jim Davies studied mathematics at New College, Oxford, joining the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (now the Oxford University Department of Computer Science) in 1986 for a Masters' and Doctorate.[1] After working as a researcher and lecturer in computer science, at Oxford, Reading, and Royal Holloway, University of London, he became a lecturer in software engineering at Oxford in 1995.[1] He has led the Software Engineering Programme since 2000, and was made Professor of Software Engineering in 2006.[1]
Davies is an expert in formal methods, including Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) and the Z notation.
Books
- Jim Davies, Specification and Proof in Real Time CSP. Cambridge University Press, 1993. ISBN 978-0-521-45055-3.
- Jim Woodcock and Jim Davies, Using Z: Specification, Refinement, and Proof. Prentice-Hall International Series in Computer Science, 1996. ISBN 978-0-13-948472-8.
- Jim Davies, Bill Roscoe, and Jim Woodcock, Millennial Perspectives in Computer Science: Proceedings of the 1999 Oxford-Microsoft Symposium in Honour of Sir Tony Hoare. Palgrave Macmillan, Cornerstones of Computing, 2000. ISBN 978-0-333-92230-9.
References
- ^ a b c d "Jim Davies:Oxford University". Retrieved 2009-09-26.
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- Living people
- Alumni of New College, Oxford
- Academics of Royal Holloway, University of London
- Academics of the University of Reading
- Members of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
- Fellows of Kellogg College, Oxford
- English computer scientists
- Formal methods people
- Computer science writers
- British textbook writers