George Necula

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George Necula
Computer Science
InstitutionsGoogle
Doctoral advisorPeter Lee

George Ciprian Necula is a Romanian computer scientist, engineer at Google, and former professor at the University of California, Berkeley who does research in the area of programming languages and software engineering, with a particular focus on software verification and formal methods. He is best known for his Ph.D. thesis work first describing proof-carrying code,[1] a work that received the 2007 SIGPLAN Most Influential POPL Paper Award.[2]

Life and work

Originally from

Polytechnic University of Bucharest. He then came to Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, completing his MS in Computer Science (1995) and PhD in Computer Science (1998) under programming-languages researcher Peter Lee. His PhD work introduced proof-carrying code, which was influential as a mechanism to allow untrusted machine code to run safely without performance overhead. He joined as faculty at the University of California, Berkeley
in 1998.

More recently, Necula's work has focused on open-source analysis, verification, and transformation tools for C, including the C Intermediate Language (CIL), CCured [1], and Deputy [2].

C Intermediate Language

C Intermediate Language (CIL) is a simplified subset of the C programming language, as well as a set of tools for transforming C programs into that language.[4][5][6] Several other tools use CIL as a way to have access to a C abstract syntax tree. One of these programs is Frama-C (Framework to Analyze C programs).

Awards

Necula is a Fellow of the

SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award in 2006.[9]

References

  1. ^ George C. Necula. Compiling with Proofs. PhD thesis, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Univ., Sept. 1998.
  2. ^ SIGPLAN (2010-01-24). "Most Influential POPL Paper Award". ACM. Archived from the original on 2009-08-02. Retrieved 2010-02-02.
  3. ^ George Necula (Spring 2010). "George Necula's Home Page". Retrieved 2010-02-03.
  4. ISBN 3-540-43369-4
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  5. ^ "GitHub - cil-project/Cil: C Intermediate Language". GitHub.
  6. ISBN 3-540-43369-4
  7. ^ Association for Computing Machinery (2001). "ACM Award Citation / George Necula". Retrieved 2010-02-02.
  8. ^ National Science Foundation (2002-06-22). "Award Abstract #9875171 - CAREER: A Logic-Based Approach to Software System Integrity and Security". Retrieved 2010-02-02.
  9. ^ Association for Computing Machinery (2010). "SIGOPS - Hall of Fame Award". Retrieved 2010-02-02.

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