Tobias Nipkow

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Tobias Nipkow
Born1958
Known for Isabelle proof assistant
Scientific career
Institutions MIT, Cambridge University, TU Munich
Thesis Behavioural Implementation Concepts for Nondeterministic Data Types  (1987)
Doctoral advisor Cliff B. Jones
Website www21.in.tum.de/~nipkow

Tobias Nipkow (born 1958) is a German computer scientist.

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Career

Nipkow received his Diplom (MSc) in computer science from the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt in 1982, and his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in 1987.

He worked at MIT from 1987, changed to Cambridge University in 1989, and to Technical University Munich in 1992, where he was appointed professor for programming theory.

He is chair of the Logic and Verification group since 2011.

He is known for his work in interactive and automatic theorem proving, in particular for the Isabelle proof assistant; he was the editor of the Journal of Automated Reasoning up to January 1, 2021. [1] Moreover, he focuses on programming language semantics, type systems and functional programming. [2]

In 2021 he won the Herbrand Award "in recognition of his leadership in developing Isabelle and related tools, resulting in key contributions to the foundations, automation, and use of proof assistants in a wide range of applications, as well as his successful efforts in increasing the visibility of automated reasoning". [3]

Selected publications

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References

  1. Blanchette, Jasmin (12 February 2021). "Message from the New Editor-in-Chief". Journal of Automated Reasoning. 65 (2): 155. doi: 10.1007/s10817-021-09587-y .
  2. Brief vita
  3. "Herbrand Award for Distinguished Contributions to Automated Reasoning". CADE Inc. Retrieved 14 July 2021.