Patrick Cousot
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| Born | 3 December 1948 |
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| Residence | Paris |
| Nationality | French |
| Known for | Abstract interpretation |
| Notable awards | Silver medal of CNRS Great prize of the EADS Foundation |
Patrick Cousot (born 3 December 1948) is a French computer scientist.
Cousot is the originator of abstract interpretation, an influential technique in formal methods. In the 2000s, he has worked on practical methods of static analysis for critical embedded software, such as found in avionics. He has been Professor of Computer Science at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris since 1991. As of March 2008, Cousot is a Professor of Computer Science at New York University.
He is a knight (Chevalier) in the Ordre National du Mérite and the Ordre des Palmes académiques. In 1999 he received the silver medal of CNRS and in 2006 the great prize of the EADS Foundation. In 2001, he was bestowed an honorary doctorate by Saarland University, Germany.
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[edit] External links
- Patrick Cousot home page at ENS
- Patrick Cousot home page at MIT
- Patrick Cousot bibliography in the DBLP database
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