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Martin C. Henson
Born1954
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Southampton, University of Reading, University of Essex
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science, formal methods, academic accreditation, International Development
InstitutionsUniversity of Essex

Professor Martin C. Henson FBCS FRSA (born 1954) is an English computer scientist based at the University of Essex. He is Dean of International Development and is affiliated to the School of Computer Science & Electronic Engineering. Henson was Head of the Department of Computer Science from 2000–2006.

Education

Martin Henson was educated at The Bulmershe School in Woodley, Berkshire, at the University of Southampton (BSc, 1976), at the University of Reading (PGCE, 1977), and the University of Essex (MSc, 1981).

Academic Research

Henson's academic work is in the area of formal methods to aid software engineering. His early work was in programming language semantics, especially using algebraic approaches for structuring compiler and interpreter generation from semantic descriptions. He moved on to work in functional languages, focusing on program verification and transformation, pioneering an approach to program transformation, adapted from work in semantic equivalences, using higher-order generalisations and relational constraints. Since the late 1990s, he has undertaken research into the design and use of logics of specification and program development. With Steve Reeves, he has studied the formal semantics of the Z notation in detail. This work was used in the international ISO standard for the Z notation. Most recently he has proposed a new approach to specification, based on specification theories, developing the specification logic nuZ -- a Z-like specification language with a monotonic schema calculus.

He has been a Fellow of the British Computer Society since 2009 and holds a Visiting Professorship at the University of Waikato in New Zealand.

International Development

Henson runs a blog on his activities as Dean at Essex University. He has worked internationally on academic accreditation, institutional licensure and strategic planning, with a focus on the Middle East and particularly for the Commission for Academic Accreditation in the United Arab Emirates. He is an external reviewer for the Oman Accreditation Council, and has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts since 2010.

Professor Henson has given keynote addresses on outcomes-based curriculum development, in Saudi Arabia, on institutional research strategic planning in Indonesia, and on the internationalization of Higher Education in China. His other international consultancy has included Jordan, Kuwait, the West Indies and Sweden.

Selected publications

  • Martin C. Henson and Steve Reeves, Revising Z: Part I — Logic and Semantics. Formal Aspects of Computing, 11(4):359–380, 1999.
  • Martin C. Henson and Steve Reeves. Revising Z: Part II — Logical Development. Formal Aspects of Computing, 11(4):381–401, 1999.
  • Martin C. Henson, Steve Reeves and Jonathan P. Bowen, Z Logic and its Consequences. CAI: Computing and Informatics, 22(4):381–415, 2003. In Dines Bjørner (editor), special issue on The Logics of Formal Specification Languages.
  • Martin C. Henson, Besnik Kajtazi and Moshe Deutsch, The specification logic nuZ, Formal Aspects of Computing, special issue on Refinement, 18(3):364--395, 2007.
  • Martin C. Henson, Moshe Deutsch and Steve Reeves, Z Logic and its Applications. In Martin C. Henson and Dines Bjorner (editors), Logics of Specification Languages, EATCS Monographs in Theoretical Computer Science, 489-596, Springer, 2008.
  • Martin C. Henson, Applications and Methodology of nuZ. In Paul Boca, Jonathan P. Bowen, Jawed I. Siddiqi (editors), Formal Methods: State of the Art and New Deirections, 117-146, Springer, 2010.

Books

  • Martin C. Henson, Elements of Functional Programming, Blackwell Scientific Publications, 1987.
  • Martin C. Henson and Dines Bjorner (editors), Logics of Specification Languages, EATCS Monographs in Theoretical Computer Science, Springer, 2008.

References

  1. Academic Staff: Prof Martin Henson, School of Computer Science & Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, UK.
  2. Martin Henson, Academia.edu.
  3. Martin Henson, QAlias.
  4. Information Technology — Z Formal Specification Notation — Syntax, Type System and Semantics, ISO/IEC 13568:2002, ISO, 2002.
  5. Fellows of the BCS: Henson, Martin Charles
  6. Staff: Martin Henson (Professor), Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato
  7. Martin Henson blog, Typepad.com.
  8. External Reviewers: Prof Martin Henson
  9. External Reviewers: Prof Martin Henson
  10. Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts
  11. Outcomes-based Curriculum Development
  12. The Strategic Management of Research
  13. The Internationalization of Higher Education

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