Lawrence Paulson

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Lawrence Paulson
Born Lawrence Charles Paulson
1955 (age 68–69)
Citizenship US/UK
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Institutions University of Cambridge
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Thesis A Compiler Generator for Semantic Grammars (1981)
Doctoral advisor John L. Hennessy[2]
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  • Pilkington Teaching Prize (2003)
  • FACM (2008)
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  • Susan Mary Paulson (d. 2010)
  • Elena Tchougounova
Website
www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~lp15/

Lawrence Charles Paulson (born 1955) is a professor at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and a fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.[1][2][6][7][8][9]

Education

Paulson graduated from the California Institute of Technology in 1977, and obtained his PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University under the supervision of John L. Hennessy.[2][10]

Research

Paulson came to the University of Cambridge in 1983 and became a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge in 1987. He is best known for the cornerstone text on the programming language ML, ML for the Working Programmer.[11][12] His research is based around the interactive theorem prover Isabelle, which he introduced in 1986.[13] He has worked on the verification of cryptographic protocols using inductive definitions, and he has also formalized the constructible universe of Kurt Gödel. Recently he has built a new theorem prover, MetiTarski,[5] for real-valued special functions.[14]

Teaching

Paulson teaches two undergraduate lecture courses on the Computer Science Tripos, entitled Foundations of Computer Science[15] (which introduces functional programming) and Logic and Proof[16](which covers automated theorem proving and related methods).

Personal life

Paulson has two children by his first wife, Dr Susan Mary Paulson, who died in 2010.[17] He is now married to Dr Elena Tchougounova.

Awards and honours

Paulson is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2008).

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lawrence Paulson's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Lawrence Paulson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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  6. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  7. ↑ Lawrence Paulson from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library
  8. ↑ Lawrence Paulson's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier
  9. ↑ Lawrence Paulson's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
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