Nationality Israeli Name Amir Pnueli | Role Computer scientist Fields Computer Science | |
Born April 22, 1941Nahalal, British Mandate of Palestine ( 1941-04-22 ) Institutions StanfordTel Aviv UniversityWeizmann InstituteNew York University Books Temporal Verification of Reactive Systems: Safety People also search for Zohar Manna, W.-P. de Roever, Shmuel Safra |
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Amir Pnueli (Hebrew: אמיר פנואלי; April 22, 1941 – November 2, 2009) was an Israeli computer scientist and the 1996 Turing Award recipient.
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- David harel amir pnueli a gentle giant lord of the phi s and the psi s
- Series 2 3rd session of Turing Techtalk Series Life and work of Prof Amir Pnueli
- Biography
- Awards and honours
- References
Series 2 | 3rd session of Turing Techtalk Series | Life and work of Prof. Amir Pnueli
Biography
Pnueli was born in Nahalal, in the British Mandate of Palestine (now in Israel) and received a Bachelor's degree in mathematics from the Technion in Haifa, and Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the Weizmann Institute of Science. His thesis was on the topic of "Calculation of Tides in the Ocean". He switched to computer science during a stint as a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University. His works in computer science focused on temporal logic and model checking, particularly regarding fairness properties of concurrent systems.
He returned to Israel as a researcher; he was the founder and first chair of the computer science department at Tel Aviv University. He became a professor of computer science at the Weizmann Institute in 1981. From 1999 until his death, Pnueli also held a position at the Computer Science Department of New York University, New York, U.S..
Pnueli also founded two startup technology companies during his career. He had three children and, at his death, had four grandchildren.
Pnueli died on November 2, 2009 of a brain hemorrhage.