[Colloq] REMINDER: Distinguished Speaker Series - Robert Constable, TODAY, 3pm

[Rachel Kalweit]

College of Computer and Information Science Colloquium
Distinguished Speaker Series
Thursday, February 9, 2006
3:00 pm
Raytheon Amphitheater, Egan Research Center

Speaker:
Robert L. Constable
Cornell University

Title:
"Transforming the Academy: Knowledge Formation
  in the Age of Digital Information"

Bio:
ROBERT CONSTABLE is a graduate of Princeton University where he worked
with Alonzo Church, one of the pioneers of computer science. He did his
PhD at Wisconsin with Stephen Cole Kleene, a PhD student of Church and
another pioneer of computer science.
Professor Constable joined the Cornell faculty in 1968. He has
supervised over forty PhD students in computer science. He is known for
his work connecting programs and mathematical proofs which has led to
new ways of automating the production of reliable software. This work is
known by the slogan "proofs as programs," and it is embodied in the
Nuprl ("new pearl") theorem prover. He has written three books on this
topic as well as numerous research articles. Since 1980 he has headed a
project that uses Nuprl to design and verify software systems, instances
of which are still operational in industry and science. Currently he is
working on extending this programming method to concurrent processes,
realizing the notion of "proofs as processes."
In 1999 he became the first dean of the Faculty of Computing and
Information Science, a unit which includes the Computer Science
Department, as well as Information Science, Statistics, Computational
Biology, Graphics, and Computational Science. Dean Constable was the
department chair of Computer Science from 1993 to 1999.




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