William G. Griswold is a professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the

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.Faculty research profile
, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UC San Diego, retrieved 2010-01-25. His research is in

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; he is best known for his works on

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using

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and on finding invariants of programs to support

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. Griswold received his Ph.D. from the

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(Computer Science 1991 as well as a M.S. Computer Science 1988. His BA was from the University of Arizona in 1985. Major Mathematics, minor Computer Science, with highest honors) and joined the UCSD faculty in 1991. He has been the chair of

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, co-program chair of the 2005

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, and program chair of the 2002 ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering. He is the son of

Ralph Griswold Ralph E. Griswold (May 19, 1934, Modesto, CA – October 4, 2006, Tucson, AZ) was a computer scientist known for his research into high-level programming languages and symbolic computation. His language credits include the string processing la ...

. He has two children Hannah and Atticus.

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