Andrew D. Gordon
Andrew D. Gordon is a British computer scientist employed by Microsoft Research. His research interests include programming language design, formal methods, concurrency, cryptography, and access control.
Biography
Gordon earned a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1992. Until 1997 Gordon was a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. He then joined the Microsoft Research laboratory in Cambridge, England, where he is a principal researcher in the Programming Principles and Tools group.[1] He also holds a professorship at the University of Edinburgh.[2]
Research
Gordon is one of the designers of Concurrent Haskell, a functional programming language with explicit primitives for concurrency. He is the co-designer with Martin Abadi of spi calculus, an extension of the π-calculus for formalized reasoning about cryptographic systems.[3] He and Luca Cardelli invented the ambient calculus for reasoning about mobile code.[4] With Moritz Y. Becker and Cédric Fournet, Gordon also designed SecPAL, a Microsoft specification language for access control policies.
Awards and honours
Gordon's Ph.D. thesis, Functional Programming and Input/Output, won the 1993 Distinguished Dissertation Award of the British Computer Society.[5] His 2000 paper on the ambient calculus subject with Luca Cardelli, "Anytime, Anywhere: Modal Logics for Mobile Ambients", won the 2010 SIGPLAN Most Influential POPL Paper Award.[6]
References
- ↑ Programming, Principles, and Tools group, Microsoft Research, accessed 2012-02-02.
- ↑ Faculty profile, Univ. of Edinburgh, retrieved 2012-02-02.
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- ↑ Awards, honours, prizes and competitions won, Cambridge Computer Laboratory, accessed 2012-02-02.
- ↑ SIGPLAN awards, retrieved 2012-02-01.
