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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2007 - A. M. Turing Award Together with E. Allen Emerson and Joseph Sifakis, for their role in developing Model-Checking into a highly effective verification technology that is widely adopted in the hardware and software industries.
  • 2005 - Member of the National Academy of Engineering For contributions to the formal verification of hardware and software correctness.
  • 1998 - ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award Symbolic Model Checking
  • 1998 - ACM Fellow Edmund M. Clarke is the co-inventor of Model Checking (with his former student Allen Emerson). He and his graduate students helped make Model Checking a tool that can be used to verify finite-state concurrent systems of industrial complexity.

Overview

Edmund M. Clarke was affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their career focused primarily on formal verification methods, with notable contributions to model checking as a verification technology.

Throughout their career, Clarke received multiple awards recognizing work in the field of hardware and software verification. These included the A. M. Turing Award in 2007, awarded jointly with E. Allen Emerson and Joseph Sifakis for their roles in developing model checking into an effective and widely adopted verification technology in industry.

Clarke was also recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2011. They were made a Member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2005, explicitly for contributions to formal verification of hardware and software correctness. Earlier honors included the ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award in 1998 for Symbolic Model Checking and election as an ACM Fellow the same year, credited for co-inventing model checking and advancing it as a practical verification tool for finite-state concurrent systems.

Best Publications

  • Model Checking

    Edmund M. Clarke;Bernd-Holger Schlingloff

  • Model checking

    E. Clarke;O. Grumberg;D. Long

  • DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS OF SYNCHRONIZATION SKELETONS USING BRANCHING TIME TEMPORAL LOGIC

    Edmund M. Clarke;E. Allen Emerson

  • Automatic verification of finite-state concurrent systems using temporal logic specifications

    E. M. Clarke;E. A. Emerson;A. P. Sistla

  • Symbolic model checking: 10/sup 20/ states and beyond

    J.R. Burch;E.M. Clarke;K.L. McMillan;D.L. Dill

  • Symbolic Model Checking without BDDs

    Armin Biere;Alessandro Cimatti;Edmund M. Clarke;Yunshan Zhu

  • Model checking and abstraction

    Edmund M. Clarke;Orna Grumberg;David E. Long

  • NuSMV 2: An OpenSource Tool for Symbolic Model Checking

    Alessandro Cimatti;Edmund M. Clarke;Enrico Giunchiglia;Fausto Giunchiglia

  • Counterexample-guided abstraction refinement

    E. Clarke

  • Formal methods: state of the art and future directions

    Edmund M. Clarke;Jeannette M. Wing

  • A Tool for Checking ANSI-C Programs

    Edmund M. Clarke;Daniel Kroening;Flavio Lerda

  • The complexity of propositional linear temporal logics

    A. P. Sistla;E. M. Clarke

  • Counterexample-guided abstraction refinement for symbolic model checking

    Edmund Clarke;Orna Grumberg;Somesh Jha;Yuan Lu

  • Bounded Model Checking Using Satisfiability Solving

    Edmund Clarke;Armin Biere;Richard Raimi;Yunshan Zhu

  • Using branching time temporal logic to synthesize synchronization skeletons

    E.Allen Emerson;Edmund M. Clarke

  • Symbolic model checking using SAT procedures instead of BDDs

    A. Biere;A. Cimatti;E. M. Clarke;M. Fujita

  • Bounded Model Checking

    Armin Biere;Alessandro Cimatti;Edmund M. Clarke;Ofer Strichman

  • NUSMV: A New Symbolic Model Verifier

    Alessandro Cimatti;Edmund M. Clarke;Fausto Giunchiglia;Marco Roveri

  • NUSMV: a new symbolic model checker

    Alessandro Cimatti;Edmund M. Clarke;Fausto Giunchiglia;Marco Roveri

  • Symbolic model checking for sequential circuit verification

    J.R. Burch;E.M. Clarke;D.E. Long;K.L. McMillan

  • Counterexample-Guide dAbstractio nRefinemen t ?

    Edmund Clarke;Orna Grumberg;Somesh Jha;Yuan Lu

Frequent Co-Authors

Orna Grumberg
Orna Grumberg Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Somesh Jha
Somesh Jha University of Wisconsin–Madison
Daniel Kroening
Daniel Kroening Amazon (United States)
Sagar Chaki
Sagar Chaki Siemens (United States)
Armin Biere
Armin Biere University of Freiburg
Kenneth L. McMillan
Kenneth L. McMillan Microsoft (United States)
Joël Ouaknine
Joël Ouaknine Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
André Platzer
André Platzer Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Alessandro Cimatti
Alessandro Cimatti Fondazione Bruno Kessler

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