by John Wickerson on Aug 19, 2020 | Tags: formal verification, functional programming, rust language, separation logic, type systems
People of PL is a series of interviews with PL researchers. In today’s post, John Wickerson chats with Derek Dreyer, who is Faculty at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), and Honorarprofessor of Computer Science, Saarland University.
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by Cristiano Calcagno, Dino Distefano, Peter O'Hearn and Hongseok Yang on Mar 3, 2020 | Tags: MIP award, separation logic, shape analysis, static analysis
The authors of POPL’s 2019 most influential paper reflect on lessons learned: (i) in research, ask daring questions far beyond current capabilities; (ii) develop compositional techniques, which confer important benefits that increase impact; (iii) work in PL theory: now is a great time for it!
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