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| Dr. Byron Cook | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | computer science researcher |
| Known for | Termination analysis |
Dr. Byron Cook is an American computer science researcher at University College London. 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, and
- Discovering invariants regarding mutable data structures.
Awards and Prizes
In 2009, Cook won the Roger Needham Award. His public lecture was on "Proving that programs eventually do something good".
Cook was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineers in 2019.
References
- "University College London".
- "T2 project website". Archived from the original on 26 June 2015.
- "SLAyer project website". Archived from the original on 8 December 2008.
- Roger Needham Award at BCS website
- Amazon Web Services blog