This article is about the British computer scientist. For other people named Cliff Jones, see Cliff Jones (disambiguation).
| Cliff Jones | |
|---|---|
 Cliff Jones in Swansea | |
| Born | (1944-06-01) 1 June 1944 (age 80) |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Known for | Vienna Development Method |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | IBM Laboratory Vienna Victoria University of Manchester Newcastle University |
| Thesis | Development Methods for Computer Programs Including a Notion of Interference |
| Doctoral advisor | C. A. R. Hoare |
| Doctoral students | John Fitzgerald Tobias Nipkow |
Clifford "Cliff" B. Jones FREng (born 1 June 1944) is a British computer scientist, specializing in research into formal methods. He undertook a late DPhil at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (now the Oxford University Department of Computer Science) under Tony Hoare, awarded in 1981. Jones' thesis proposed an extension to Hoare logic for handling concurrent programs, rely/guarantee.
Prior to his DPhil, Jones worked for IBM, between the Hursley and Vienna Laboratories. In Vienna, Jones worked with Peter Lucas, Dines Bjørner and others on the Vienna Development Method (VDM), originally as a method for specifying the formal semantics of programming languages, and subsequently for specifying and verifying programs.
Cliff Jones was a professor at the Victoria University of Manchester in the 1980s and early 1990s, worked in industry at Harlequin for a period, and is now a Professor of Computing Science at Newcastle University. He has been editor-in-chief of the Formal Aspects of Computing journal.
As well as formal methods, Jones also has interests in interdisciplinary aspects of computer science and the history of computer science.
Books
Jones has authored and edited many books, including:
- Jones, Cliff B.; Misra, Jayadev, eds. (2021). Theories of Programming: The Life and Works of Tony Hoare. ACM Books. Vol. 39. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery. doi:10.1145/3477355. ISBN 978-1-4503-8728-6. S2CID 238251696.
- Understanding Programming Languages, Jones, C.B. Springer, Cham. Print ISBN 978-3-030-59256-1 / online ISBN 978-3-030-59257-8 (2020).
- Reflections on the Work of C.A.R. Hoare, Roscoe, A.W., Jones, C.B. and Wood, K. (eds.). Springer. ISBN 978-1-84882-911-4 (2010).
- VDM: Une methode rigoureuse pour le development du logiciel, Jones, C.B. Masson, Paris. ISBN 2-225-82812-1 (1993).
- MURAL: A Formal Development Support System, Jones, C.B., Jones, K.D., Lindsay, P.A. and Moore, R. (eds.). Springer-Verlag. ISBN 3-540-19651-X (1991).
- Systematic Software Development using VDM (2nd Edition), Jones, C.B. Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-880733-7, 1990
- Case Studies in Systematic Software Development, Jones, C.B. and Shaw, R.C.F. (eds.). Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-116088-5 (1989).
- Essays in Computing Science, Hoare, C.A.R. and Jones, C.B. Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-284027-8 (1989).
- Systematic Software Development using VDM, Jones, C.B. Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-880717-5 (1986).
- Programming Languages and their Definition: Selected Papers of Hans Bekic (1936–1982), Jones, C.B. (editor). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 177, Springer-Verlag. ISBN 3-540-13378-X (1984).
- Formal Specification and Software Development, Bjørner, D. and Jones, C.B. Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-329003-4 (1982).
- Software Development: A Rigorous Approach, Jones, C.B. Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-821884-6 (1980).
- The Vienna Development Method: The Meta-Language, Bjørner, D. and Jones, C.B. (editors). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 61, Springer-Verlag. ISBN 3-540-08766-4 (1978).
References
- Cliff Jones at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- "List of Fellows". Royal Academy of Engineering. Archived from the original on 9 August 2014.
- "Bio · Cliff B Jones". UK: Newcastle University. Archived from the original on 23 June 2015. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- Jones, C.B. (June 1981). Development Methods for Computer Programs including a Notion of Interference (PDF) (DPhil thesis). Oxford University.
- "Research · Cliff B Jones". UK: Newcastle University. Archived from the original on 13 July 2014. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- Formal Aspects of Computing. Vol. 1. Association for Computing Machinery. 1989. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
- Cliff B. Jones at DBLP Bibliography Server
- Cliff B. Jones: Publication List Archived 12 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Scientific Commons.
External links
- Home page
- Cliff Jones publications indexed by Google Scholar
- 1944 births
- Living people
- Alumni of Wolfson College, Oxford
- Members of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
- IBM employees
- Academics of the Victoria University of Manchester
- Academics of Newcastle University
- Computer science writers
- British academic journal editors
- English computer scientists
- Formal methods people
- Fellows of the British Computer Society
- 1995 fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
- Fellows of the Institution of Engineering and Technology
- Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering