Jim Horning
| Jim Horning | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 24, 1942 |
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| Institutions | University of Toronto Palo Alto Research Center DEC Systems Research Center InterTrust Technologies Corp. |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Thesis | A Study of Grammatical Inference (1969) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jerome A. "Jerry" Feldman |
| Doctoral students | John Guttag |
James Jay "Jim" Horning (24 August 1942 – 18 January 2013) was an American computer scientist and ACM Fellow.[1]
Overview
Jim Horning received a PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 1969 for a thesis entitled A Study of Grammatical Inference. He was a founding member, and later chairman, of the Computer Systems Research Group at the University of Toronto, Canada, from 1969 until 1977. He was then a Research Fellow at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) from 1977 until 1984 and a founding member and senior consultant at DEC Systems Research Center (DEC/SRC) from 1984 until 1996. He was founder and director of STAR Lab from 1997 until 2001 at InterTrust Technologies Corp.
Peter G. Neumann reported on 22 January 2013 in the RISKS Digest, Volume 27, Issue 14, that Horning had died on 18 January 2013.[2]
Horning's interests included programming languages, programming methodology, specification, formal methods, digital rights management and computer/network security. A major contribution was his involvement with the Larch approach to formal specification with John Guttag (MIT) et al.
Selected publications
- A Compiler Generator (with W. M. Mckeeman and D. B. Wortman), Prentice Hall (1970). ISBN 0-13-155077-2.
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Quotes
- "Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be."[citation needed]
- "Good judgement comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgement."[citation needed]
References
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- ↑ "Risks Digest 27.14", Peter G. Neumann, 22 January 2013
