Professor Alan Burns

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FIET FBCS FIEEE CEng is a professor in the

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Department at the

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. He has been at the University of York since 1990, and held the post of Head of Department from 1999 until 30 June 2006, when he was succeeded by John McDermid. He is a member of the department's Real-Time Systems Research Group, and has authored or co-authored over 300 publications, with a large proportion of them concentrating on

real-time systems Real-time computing (RTC) is the computer science term for Computer hardware, hardware and computer software, software systems subject to a "real-time constraint", for example from Event (synchronization primitive), event to Event (computing), ...

and the

Ada programming language Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, and object-oriented high-level programming language, extended from Pascal and other languages. It has built-in language support for '' design by contract'' (DbC), extremely strong typing, expl ...

. Burns has been actively involved in the creation of the

Ravenscar profile The Ravenscar profile is a subset of the Ada tasking features designed for safety-critical hard real-time computing. It was defined by a separate technical report in Ada 95; it is now part of the Ada 2012 Standard. It has been named after the Englis ...

, a subset of Ada's tasking model, designed to enable the analysis of real-time programs for their timing properties. In 2006, Alan Burns was awarded the Annual Technical Achievement Award for technical achievement and leadership by the

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Technical Committee on Real-time Systems. In 2009, he was elected

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of the

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. He is also a Fellow of the

British Computer Society Sir Maurice Wilkes served as the first President of BCS in 1957 BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, known as the British Computer Society until 2009, is a professional body and a learned society that represents those working in inf ...

(BCS) and the

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(IET), and a Fellow of the

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(IEEE).

Books

Alan Burns has written a number of computer science books.Alan Burns
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References

External links

Alan Burns departmental home page

Personal home page
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