Gérard Huet

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Gérard Huet is a French computer scientist known for his influential work in formal methods, type theory, and the development of the Coq proof assistant.

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instanceOf French person
academic
computer scientist
researcher
affiliation Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
surface form: CNRS

INRIA
surface form: INRIA Rocquencourt
contributedTo development of proof assistants in France
foundations of type-theoretic proof systems
countryOfCitizenship France
doctoralAdvisor John McCarthy
educatedAt Stanford University
Université de Paris NERFINISHED
École Polytechnique
employer ENS Paris
INRIA
École Polytechnique
fieldOfWork automated theorem proving
computer science
formal methods
lambda calculus
programming languages
proof assistants
term rewriting
type theory
unification theory
hasAcademicDiscipline formal verification
mathematical logic
proof theory
theoretical computer science
hasRole professor
research director
theoretician
influenced design of interactive theorem provers
influencedBy lambda calculus tradition
mathematical logic
knownFor Huet unification algorithm
contributions to the design of Coq
development of the Calculus of Constructions
work on higher-order unification
language English
French
memberOf Académie des Sciences
surface form: French Academy of Sciences
notableFor contributions to the Coq proof assistant
work on formal methods
work on type theory
notableStudent Christine Paulin-Mohring
Gilles Dowek
Thierry Coquand
workLocation Paris

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Herbrand Award notableRecipient Gérard Huet