'Amir Pnueli' (born
April 22,
1941) is an Israeli
computer scientist who received the
Turing Award in
1996 ''for seminal work introducing
temporal logic into computing science and for outstanding contributions to program and systems verification''.
Born in
Nahalal,
Israel, Pnueli received a
Bachelor's degree in Mathematics at the
Technion in
Haifa, and
Ph.D. in applied
mathematics from the
Weizmann Institute of Science. His thesis was on the topic of "Calculation of Tides in the Ocean". He switched to computer science during a stint as a post-doctoral fellow at
Stanford University. He returned to Israel as a researcher and after a sequence of academic appointments became
Professor of Computer Science at the
Weizmann Institute in
1981. Since
1999, Pnueli has also held a position at the Computer Science Department of
New York University,
New York,
U.S..
Pnueli has also founded two startup technology companies during his career. He is married with three children and a grandchild.
See also
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Important publications in Formal verification
External links
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New York University home page
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Short biography
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Weizmann home page
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Profile