William Randall Cook (November 21, 1963 – October 27, 2021) was an American computer scientist, who was an associate professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the

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Early life and education

Cook was born on November 21, 1963. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Brown University in 1989.

Career

Cook's research concentrated on object-oriented programming, programming languages, modeling languages, and the interface between programming languages and databases. Prior to joining UT in 2003, he was chief technology officer and co-founder of Allegis Corporation, where he was chief architect for several award-winning products, including the eBusiness Suite at Allegis, the writer's Solution for Prentice Hall, and the

AppleScript AppleScript is a scripting language created by Apple Inc. that facilitates automated control over scriptable Mac applications. First introduced in System 7, it is currently included in all versions of macOS as part of a package of system aut ...

language at Apple Computer. Cook won the Senior

Dahl–Nygaard Prize The Dahl–Nygaard Prize is awarded annually to a senior researcher with outstanding career contributions and a younger researcher who has demonstrated great potential. The senior prize is recognized as one of the most prestigious prizes in the are ...

in 2014.

Personal life

Cook died on October 27, 2021, at the age of 57.William Randall Cook obituary
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Selected papers

Inheritance is not subtyping
Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages (1990)
''AppleScript''
Proceedings of the third ACM SIGPLAN conference on History of programming languages
HOPL III
Pages 1–21 ACM, 2007.

References

External links

Home page at University of TexasPapers and citations
according to Google Scholar.

as listed in DBLP. {{DEFAULTSORT:Cook, William 1963 births 2021 deaths American chief technology officers American computer scientists Brown University alumni University of Texas at Austin faculty Dahl–Nygaard Prize