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Amir Pnueli

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Amir Pnueli was an Israeli computer scientist who in 1977 introduced temporal logic as a formal tool for specifying and reasoning about the ongoing behavior of concurrent and reactive computer programs, systems that run continuously and respond to events rather than simply computing an output and stopping. This work became foundational to the later development of model checking and automated verification. Pnueli won the Turing Award in 1996.

Facts
Birth Year
1941 1
Birth Date
1941-04-22 1
Death Year
2009 1
Death Date
2009-11-02 1
Nationality
Israeli 1
Award
honorary doctorate from Joseph Fourier University 2
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Turing Award 2
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ACM Fellow 2
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Israel Prize 2
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ACM Software System Award 2
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Formal Methods, Fields
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1. Wikipedia: Amir Pnueli
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    Amir Pnueli (Hebrew: אמיר פנואלי; April 22, 1941, November 2, 2009) was an Israeli computer scientist and the 1996 Turing Award recipient.
  • In Field: Formal Methods, Lead paragraph
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2. Wikidata: Amir Pnueli
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