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
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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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