Amir Pnueli

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Amir Pnueli was an Israeli computer scientist renowned for introducing temporal logic to computer science and for his pioneering work in formal verification, for which he received the Turing Award.

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instanceOf Israeli person
computer scientist
person
almaMater Tel Aviv University
Weizmann Institute of Science
awardReceived ACM SIGACT Distinguished Service Prize
surface form: ACM SIGACT Award

Israel Prize
Turing Award
birthCountry Mandatory Palestine
birthDate 1941-04-22
birthPlace Nahalal
causeOfDeath cerebral hemorrhage
citizenship Israel
deathDate 2009-11-02
deathPlace New York City
doctoralAdvisor Elisha Netanyahu
doctoralThesisTitle Decision Problems in the Theory of Automata
doctoralThesisYear 1967
employer New York University
Tel Aviv University
Weizmann Institute of Science
familyName Amir Pnueli self-linksurface differs
surface form: Pnueli
field computer science
mathematics
founded Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Weizmann Institute of Science
surface form: Reactive Systems Group at Weizmann Institute of Science
gender male
givenName Amir
influenced development of model checking
research in formal methods
verification of concurrent and reactive systems
knownFor contributions to concurrent and reactive systems
contributions to program verification
introducing temporal logic to computer science
pioneering work in formal verification
memberOf Academia Europaea
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
name Amir Pnueli self-link
nationality Israeli
notableConcept linear temporal logic
surface form: linear-time temporal logic

temporal logic in program verification
notableWork The Temporal Logic of Programs
position professor
researchInterest concurrent systems
formal verification
program semantics
reactive systems
temporal logic
TuringAwardCitation for seminal work introducing temporal logic into computing science and for outstanding contributions to program and system verification
TuringAwardYear 1996

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Zohar Manna notableStudent Amir Pnueli
Zohar Manna coAuthorWith Amir Pnueli
Doron Peled coAuthorWith Amir Pnueli
Doron Peled hasAcademicAdvisor Amir Pnueli
Amir Pnueli name Amir Pnueli self-link
Amir Pnueli familyName Amir Pnueli self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Pnueli
CAV Award notableRecipient Amir Pnueli