Byron Cook (computer scientist)

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Dr. Byron Cook
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

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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 Engineering in 2019.[5]

References

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