Patrick Cousot (born 3 December 1948) is a French computer scientist, currently Silver Professor of Computer Science at the
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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,
New York University
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, USA. Before he was Professor at the
École Normale Supérieure
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* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
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(ENS), Paris, France, the
École Polytechnique
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* École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France
* École, Savoi ...
, Palaiseau, France and the
University of Metz
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, France and a Research Scientist at the
French National Center for Scientific Research
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In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...
(CNRS) at the
Joseph Fourier University
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, Grenoble, France.
Together with his wife
Radhia Cousot
Radhia Cousot (6 August 1947 – 1 May 2014) was a Tunisian French computer scientist known for inventing abstract interpretation.
Studies
Radhia Cousot was born on 6 August 1947, in Sakiet Sidi Youssef in Tunisia, where she survived the :fr:B ...
(1947–2014), Patrick Cousot is the originator of
abstract interpretation, an influential technique in
formal methods
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. In the 2000s, he has worked on practical methods of
static analysis
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for critical embedded software (
Astrée), such as found in
avionics
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.
In 1999 he received the
CNRS Silver Medal
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The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherch ...
and in 2006 the great prize of the
EADS Foundation. In 2001, he was bestowed an honorary doctorate by
Saarland University
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,
Germany
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. With
Radhia Cousot
Radhia Cousot (6 August 1947 – 1 May 2014) was a Tunisian French computer scientist known for inventing abstract interpretation.
Studies
Radhia Cousot was born on 6 August 1947, in Sakiet Sidi Youssef in Tunisia, where she survived the :fr:B ...
, he received the
ACM SIGPLAN
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Conferences
* Principles of Programming Languages (POPL)
* Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)
* International Symposium on ...
Programming Languages Achievement Award in 2013 and the
IEEE Computer Society
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Harlan D. Mills award in 2014, "For the invention of '
abstract interpretation', development of tool support, and its practical application". He received a
Humboldt Research Award
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in 2008 and the 2018
IEEE John von Neumann Medal
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"for introducing
abstract interpretation, a powerful framework for automatically calculating program properties with broad application to verification and optimisation". In 2020 Cousot was recognized
ACM Fellow
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Computing
* ...
"for contributions to programming languages through the invention and development of abstract interpretation". In 2022, Cousot was awarded an honorary doctorate from
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
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. He received th
2022 EATCS award which is given by
EATCS
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to acknowledge extensive and widely recognized contributions to theoretical computer science over a life long scientific career. He is a knight (
Chevalier
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Honours Belgium
* a rank in the Belgian Order of the Crown
* a rank in the Belgian Order of Leopold
* a rank in the Belgian Order of Leopold II
* a title in the Belgian nobility
France
* a rank in the French Legion d'h ...
) in the
Ordre National du Mérite
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and the
Ordre des Palmes académiques
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, member of the
Academia Europaea
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, Informatics section (since 2006) and member of the Board of Trustees at the
IMDEA Software Institute.
References
Short biography
External links
Patrick Cousot home pageat
NYU
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In 1832, the ...
Patrick Cousot home pageat ENS
Patrick Cousot home pageat
MIT
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1948 births
Living people
French computer scientists
Programming language researchers
Recipients of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
École Polytechnique faculty
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