Michael M. Richter

Mathematician and computer scientist

Michael M. Richter - Mathematician and computer scientist
Born

June 21st, 1938
86 years ago

Died

2020
5 years ago — 82 years old

Category

Scientists & Innovators

Country

Germany

Links & References

Contributions included research in formal methods and computer-aided verification. Developed techniques for software reliability and contributed to automated reasoning. Worked at several institutions, influencing both academia and industry with advancements in formal specification and verification. Published numerous papers on semantics and logic in computer science.

Contributed to formal methods in computer science

Developed formal specification techniques

Influenced software reliability practices

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