Byron Cook

New papers on liveness proving

Making prophecies with decision predicates shows how LTL can be lazily reduced to CTL with some help of automatically inferred "prophecy variables".

Temporal property verification as a program analysis problem shows how known tools can be used to prove CTL properties of infinite state programs

Kinect

Here's a nice article on Kinect and the work at MSR-Cambridge behind it.

New papers

I've recently been working on approaches to automatically verify properties of biological models, as well as relooking at ways of proving temporal properties of programs. This research has resulted in some new papers:

Making prophecies with decision predicates, with Eric Koskinen. This will appear
at POPL'11
Proving stabilization of biological systems, with Jasmin Fisher, Elzbieta Krepska, and Nir Piterman. This will appear at VMCAI'11

Congrats to Andrey Rybalchenko!

Andrey Rybalchenko was listed as one of MIT's selective set of 2010 Young Innovators Under 35 (TR34). Way to go Andrey!

Congratulations to Alexey Gotsman

Alexey Gotsman completed his PhD this week. Well done Alexey!

Healthcare reform article

An article in the Guardian by Bee: American healthcare is in truth already rationed

Congrats to Viktor Vafeiadis

Viktor Vafeiadis has won this year's SIGPLAN Doctoral Dissertation Award. Well done!

A new look at hardware synthesis

Check out the draft of a paper we've written on hardware synthesis.

See also: PPT slides that Satnam and I presented to Bill Gates.

Berkeley lectures

I'm visiting Berkeley University during the month of April. During my visit I'm giving 4 lectures on termination proving. Here are the slides. Warning: they're around 20mb each.

Roger Needham award

I won the Roger Needham award. Thanks to those who nominated me, the committee, and those who were asked to write letters.............whoever you are.

Interesting termination bug

Perhaps you heard about the Zune leap year bug? Sort of an interesting bug. This is a classic example of a liveness/termination bug, as explained here. And yes..... TERMINATOR can find this bug.....

SF weekly

SF Weekly makes note of the Vogue article.

Termination research now VERY fashionable ;-)

I'm mentioned in Vogue in an article about Tauba. Dec '08....the year termination research become fashionable ;-)

no kidding, functional programming has really arrived.....

Watching this talk gave me shivers. My love (functional programming) is now mainstream. Very funny talk, by the way.

Eric Koskinen

Welcome to Eric Koskinen, who just started his PhD at Cambridge University under the supervision of myself and Matthew Parkinson.