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2008 Turing Award Winners Announced

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the nobel-of-computing-awards dept.

The Association for Computing Machinery has announced the 2008 Turing Award Winners. Edmund M. Clarke, Allen Emerson, and Joseph Sifakis received the award for their work on an automated method for finding design errors in computer hardware and software. "Model Checking is a type of "formal verification" that analyzes the logic underlying a design, much as a mathematician uses a proof to determine that a theorem is correct. Far from hit or miss, Model Checking considers every possible state of a hardware or software design and determines if it is consistent with the designer's specifications. Clarke and Emerson originated the idea of Model Checking at Harvard in 1981. They developed a theoretical technique for determining whether an abstract model of a hardware or software design satisfies a formal specification, given as a formula in Temporal Logic, a notation for describing possible sequences of events. Moreover, when the system fails the specification, it could identify a counterexample to show the source of the problem. Numerous model checking systems have been implemented, such as Spin at Bell Labs."

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  1. What about those... by joey_knisch · · Score: 5, Funny

    Russian chat bots that convinced men not only that they were easy to score with females but needed a credit card up front.
    http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/09/1356201

    That has to be worth some kind of reward.

    1. Re:What about those... by tirerim · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well, getting the credit card numbers probably did pretty well for them already.

  2. Re:A Dubious Prize by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    That's interesting BalorTFL. Why do you think that?

  3. Re:A Dubious Prize by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

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    PARITY ERR ... 16376 ???
    PARITY ERR ... 56721 ???
    PARITY ERR ... 23423 ???
    PARITY ERR ... RECOVERED
    PARITY

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