E. Allen Emerson was an American computer scientist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin who, together with his doctoral advisor Edmund Clarke, helped invent model checking, a technique for automatically verifying that a hardware or software system satisfies a given specification. Emerson introduced computation tree logic and its extension CTL star as formal languages for expressing the properties model checking verifies, and he later developed symbolic model checking techniques to address the explosive growth in the number of states a real system can have. He shared the 2007 Turing Award with Clarke and Joseph Sifakis.
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Where did the idea of model checking come from in E. Allen Emerson's work?
Emerson says model checking began as a spinoff of his work on program synthesis.
By his own account, Emerson was responsible for the initial conception of model checking, which began as a spinoff of his work on program synthesis. The idea was to check algorithmically whether candidate models satisfy a temporal specification, which explains why the technique came to be called model checking.
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Ernest Allen Emerson II (June 2, 1954 - October 15, 2024) was an American computer scientist and winner of the 2007 Turing Award.
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