Dexter kozen's influence on the theory of labelled markov processes

  • Authors:
  • Prakash Panangaden

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, McGill University, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Logic and Program Semantics
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In the Fall of 1985 Dexter and I both started at Cornell as new faculty members in the celebrated Computer Science Department, home to luminaries such as Juris Hartmanis, John Hopcroft, David Gries and Robert Constable. I was a very new assistant professor but Dexter was already an acknowledged star with celebrated contributions to several areas: algebra and complexity, decision procedures for real-closed fields [1], dynamic logic [2-4] and many other areas across both tracks of theoretical computer science. I had no doctorate in computer science, hardly any publications and no clearly defined research area. Early in the term Dexter summoned me to his office and grilled me about work I was doing on nondeterministic dataflow. After that meeting I needed several glasses of beer to recover but a lasting friendship was sealed.