Citizenship USA Fields Computer Science Name Robert Constable | Known for NuPRL Institutions Cornell University | |
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Alma mater University of Wisconsin–Madison Doctoral students Steven Muchnick
Kurt Mehlhorn
Edmund M. Clarke
Robert Harper Education University of Wisconsin-Madison (1968) Books A Programming Logic: With an Introduction to the PL/CV Verifier, An Introduction to the PL/CV2 Programming Logic Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada Notable students Kurt Mehlhorn, Edmund M. Clarke Similar Stephen Cole Kleene, Kurt Mehlhorn, Edmund M Clarke, Joseph Sifakis, E Allen Emerson | ||
Doctoral advisor Stephen Cole Kleene |
Robert "Bob" Lee Constable is a professor of computer science and first and former dean of the department at Cornell University, United States. He is known for his work on connecting computer programs and mathematical proofs, especially the NuPRL system. Constable received his PhD in 1968 under Stephen Kleene and has supervised over 40 students, including Edmund M. Clarke, Robert Harper, Kurt Mehlhorn, Steven Muchnick, Pavel Naumov, and Ryan Stansifer. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Constable has been a director of the Marktoberdorf Summer School.
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