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Edmund M. Clarke, University Professor Emeritus
Edmund M. Clarke, University Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University and co-recipient of the 2007 Turing Award – computer science s equivalent of the Nobel Prize – died Dec. 22 of COVID-19, following a long illness.
Clarke, together with his Harvard University graduate student, E. Allen Emerson, and, working separately, Joseph Sifakis of the University of Grenoble, developed an automated method for detecting design errors in computer hardware and software. Called model checking, it is widely used and has helped to improve the reliability of complex computer chips, systems and networks. The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) awarded the Turing to the three scientists for this achievement.