by Sumit Gulwani on Sep 14, 2021 | Tags: Flash Fill, MIP award, program synthesis, Programming by Examples
My POPL 2011 “Flash Fill” paper was the most important turning point in my research career. I went from searching for the hardest problem I can solve to searching for the simplest problem that will have the most impact. It sensitized me to customer connection and enlightened me to how practical requirements can inspire foundational research ideas and directions. And most of all, it led to a blissful connection with my loved ones.
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by Sumanth Prabhu, Grigory Fedyukovich, Kumar Madhukar, and Deepak D'Souza on Sep 2, 2021 | Tags: automated programming, automated reasoning, logic-based verification
The problem of program verification is to find whether a program meets its specification. But if a program calls functions whose bodies are missing, the verification aims at finding the most general implementations of these functions. In this post we show how advances in automated reasoning allow for doing it efficiently.
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