Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/05/turing_prize_model/
Model checkers get Turing Prize
Medals and money...
Posted in Science, 5th February 2008 10:09 GMT
The Association of Computing Machinery has awarded the $250,000 A.M Turing Prize to three men who created an automated way to find design errors in hardware or software.
The prize is shared between Edmund Clarke (Carnegie Mellon), E Allen Emerson (University of Texas at Austin) and Joseph Sifakis (University of Grenoble).
Often described as the Nobel prize for computing, the Turing prize got a boost in sponsorship last year from Google.
Model checking is a process of checking for mistakes by expressing a system as a logic formula. It was used to check the PCI bus specifications.
More here. (http://awards.acm.org/homepage.cfm?srt=all&awd=140) ®