Talk
Tuesday, Oct 27, 3:30pm
Computer Science 402
Byron Cook, University College London

Proving that programs eventually do something good

In this talk I will discuss research advances that led to practical tools for automatically proving program termination and related properties, e.g. liveness. Practical applications include automatically proving device driver correctness, and pharmaceutical research.

Byron Cook is Professor of Computer Science at University College London. Byron is also a Senior Principal at Amazon. See http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/b.cook/ for more information.