Robert S. Boyer

Robert Stephen Boyer, aka Bob Boyer, is a retired professor of computer science, mathematics, and philosophy at The University of Texas at Austin. He and J Strother Moore invented the Boyer–Moore string search algorithm, a particularly efficient string searching algorithm, in 1977. He and Moore also collaborated on the Boyer–Moore automated theorem prover, Nqthm, in 1992.^[1] Following this, he worked with Moore, and Matt Kaufmann on another theorem prover called ACL2.

Publications

Boyer has published extensively, including the following books:

• A Computational Logic Handbook, with J S. Moore. Second Edition. Academic Press, London, 1998.
• Automated Reasoning: Essays in Honor of Woody Bledsoe, editor. Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1991.
• A Computational Logic Handbook, with J S. Moore. Academic Press, New York, 1988.
• The Correctness Problem in Computer Science, editor, with J S. Moore. Academic Press, London, 1981.
• A Computational Logic, with J S. Moore. Academic Press, New York, 1979.

See Also

QED manifesto

References

1. ^ "Nqthm, the Boyer–Moore prover". http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~boyer/ftp/nqthm/. Retrieved 2006-04-21. 

External links

• Home page of Robert S. Boyer. Accessed March 21, 2009.
• University of Texas, College of Liberal Arts Honors Retired Faculty - 2008. Accessed March 21, 2009.

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