Pierre Wolper

Pierre Wolper
Nationality	Belgian
Known for	Computer science

Pierre Wolper is a Belgian computer scientist at the University of Liège. His research interests include verification methods for reactive and concurrent programs, as well as temporal databases.^[1] He is the co-recipient of the 2000 Gödel Prize, along with Moshe Y. Vardi, for his work on temporal logic with finite automata.^[2] He also received the 2005 Paris Kanellakis Award for this work.^[3]

Following elections of October 2018, he becomes Rector of the University of Liège.^[4]

References

1. "Pierre Wolper". Retrieved 13 July 2015.
2. Vardi, Moshe Y.; Wolper, Pierre (1994), "Reasoning about infinite computations" (PDF), Information and Computation, 115 (1), Boston, MA: Academic Press: 1–37, doi:10.1006/inco.1994.1092, ISSN 0890-5401, archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-08-25
3. ACM honors creators of verification tools for software, hardware, ACM, 15 Mar 2006, retrieved 2012-12-12
4. Pierre Wolper élu recteur de l'Université de Liège, l'Avenir, 11 Octobre 2018.

External links

• Pierre Wolper at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Website at the University of Liège