Bill Roscoe Scientist

Andrew William "Bill" Roscoe is a Scottish computer scientist. He was Head of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford from 2003 to 2014, and is a Professor of Computer Science. He is also a Fellow of University College, Oxford.Professor Roscoe has undertaken important theoretical research work in the area of concurrency, in particular the semantic underpinning of Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) and the associated occam programming language with Sir Tony Hoare. He co-founded Formal Systems (Europe) Limited and worked on the algorithms for the Failures-Divergence Refinement (FDR) tool.

Personal facts

Alias (AKA)Roscoe A. William
Birth dateJanuary 01, 1956
Birth place
Dundee , Scotland
Education
University of Oxford
Known for
Communicating sequential processes

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Field of study
Computer science

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External resources

  1. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ed4e2289-f817-4851-868a-00e2c4f48db5
  2. http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk
  3. http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/bill.roscoe