- Joseph Sifakis
Joseph Sifakis ( _el. Ιωσήφ Σηφάκης) is a Greek(
Eleftherotypia - 05 Feb 2008) http://www.enet.gr/online/online_text/c=112,id=46050344 el_icon] (Kathimerini - 04 Feb 2008) http://portal.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_kathworld_12_04/02/2008_220846 el_icon]computer scientist , laureate of the 2007Turing Award , along withEdmund M. Clarke andE. Allen Emerson , for his work onmodel checking .He was born in
Heraklion ,Crete in 1946 and studiedElectrical Engineering at theNational Technical University of Athens andComputer Science at theUniversity of Grenoble under a Frenchscholarship . Sifakis lives inFrance and works for theCentre national de la recherche scientifique at theVERIMAG laboratory nearGrenoble , of which he is a founderCNRS website - http://www2.cnrs.fr/presse/communique/1280.htm fr_icon] .He is also coordinator of
Artist2 , the European Network of Excellence for research on Embedded Systems [http://www.artist-embedded.org/artist/-Strategic-Management-Board-.html ARTIST2 NoE - Strategic Management Board — Artist2 NoE ] ] .External links
* [http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~sifakis/ Personal homepage]
* [http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/turing-award-07/ Turing Award announcement]References
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