FACS AGM and Peter Landin Semantics Seminar

SPEAKER

Prof. Jonathan Bowen

AGENDA

16:00 - FACS AGM

17:15 - Networking

18:00 - Peter Landin Semantics Seminar

19:15 - Networking

20:30 - End of event

SYNOPSIS

FACS Annual General Meeting, followed by the annual FACS Peter Landin Semantics Seminar, delivered by Prof. Jonathan Bowen, Emeritus Professor of Computing, London South Bank University.

Title: Formal Methods: Whence and Whither Abstract: Alan Turing arguably wrote the first paper on formal methods over 75 years ago.

Since then, there have been claims and counterclaims about formal methods. Tool development has been slow but aided by Moore’s Law with the increasing power of computers.

Although formal methods are not widespread in practical usage at a heavyweight level, their influence has crept into software engineering practice to the extent that they are no longer necessarily called formal methods in their use.

In addition, in areas where safety and security are important, with the increasing use of computers in such applications, formal methods are a viable way to improve the reliability of such software-based systems.

Their use in hardware, where a mistake can be very costly, is also important. This talk explores the journey of formal methods to the present day and speculates on future directions, including the use of Artificial Intelligence.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY

Jonathan Bowen, FBCS FRSA, is Chairman of Museophile Limited (founded in 2002), an Emeritus Professor at London South Bank University, where he was Professor of Computing, establishing and heading the Centre for Applied Formal Methods from 2000, From 2017, he has been an Adjunct Professor at Southwest University, Chongqing, China.

Between 2013-15, he was Professor of Computer Science at Birmingham City University. During 2006–07, he was a visiting academic at University College London.

Between 2007–09, he was a Visiting Professor at King's College, London, and during 2008–09, he was an Associate at Praxis High Integrity Systems (now Altran). From 2010, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Westminster.

During 2010, he was a Visiting Professor at Waikato University in New Zealand and in 2012 he was a Visiting Professor at the Pratt Institute in New York.

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