Jim Woodcock

Jim Woodcock

Professor Jim C. P. Woodcock FRSA FBCS is a British computer scientist.

Woodcock gained his PhD from the University of Liverpool. Until 2001 he was Professor of Software Engineering at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory, where he was also a Fellow of Kellogg College. He then joined the University of Kent and is now based at the University of York.

His research interests include: strong software engineering, Grand Challenge in dependable systems evolution, unifying theories of programming, formal specification, refinement, concurrency, state-rich systems, mobile and reconfigurable processes, nanotechnology, Grand Challenge in the railway domain. He has a background in formal methods, especially the Z notation and CSP.

Woodcock worked on applying the Z notation to the IBM CICS project, helping to gain a Queen's Award for Technological Achievement, and Mondex, helping to gain the highest ITSEC classification level.

External links

* [http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/people/bio.php?person=jim Official home page]
* [http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~jim/ Personal home page]
* [http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~jim/publications/pubs-all.html Publications]
* [http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/jim.woodcock/ OUCL home page]
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