Citizenship United Kingdom Institutions Oxford University Name Bill Roscoe Fields Computer Science | Nationality Scottish Alma mater Oxford University Role Computer scientist Doctoral advisor Tony Hoare | |
Thesis A Mathematical Theory of Communicating Processes (1982) Known for Communicating Sequential Processes Education University College, Oxford | ||
SnT Distinguished Lecture by Bill Roscoe - 09/06/2015
Andrew William "Bill" Roscoe is a Scottish computer scientist. He was Head of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford from 2003 to 2014, and is a Professor of Computer Science. He is also a Fellow of University College, Oxford.
Professor Roscoe works in the area of concurrency theory, in particular the semantic underpinning of Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) and the associated occam programming language with Sir Tony Hoare. He co-founded Formal Systems (Europe) Limited and worked on the algorithms for the Failures-Divergence Refinement (FDR) tool.
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