James B. Saxe

James Benjamin Saxe is an American computer scientist who has worked for many years at the DEC Systems Research Center[1] and its successors, the Compaq Systems Research Center and the Systems Research Center of HP Labs.

Saxe is known for his highly-cited publications on automated theorem proving,[DNS] circuit complexity,[FSS] retiming in synchronous circuit design,[LS] computer networks,[AOS] and static program analysis.[FLL] His work on program analysis from PLDI 2002 won the Most Influential PLDI Paper Award for 2012.[2] In addition, he is one of the authors of the master theorem for divide-and-conquer recurrences.[BHS]

While a high school student, Saxe won the United States of America Mathematical Olympiad.[3] In 1974, as a student at Union College, Saxe took part in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition; his place in the top five scores earned him a Putnam Fellowship.[4] He graduated from Union College in 1976,[3], and earned his Ph.D. in 1985 from Carnegie Mellon University, under the supervision of Jon Bentley.[5]

Selected publications

BHS.
Bentley, Jon Louis; Haken, Dorothea; Saxe, James B. (September 1980), "A general method for solving divide-and-conquer recurrences", ACM SIGACT News, 12 (3): 36–44, doi:10.1145/1008861.1008865, S2CID 40642274
FSS.
Furst, Merrick; Saxe, James B.; Sipser, Michael (1984), "Parity, circuits, and the polynomial-time hierarchy", Mathematical Systems Theory, 17 (1): 13–27, doi:10.1007/BF01744431, MR 0738749, S2CID 14677270
LS.
Leiserson, Charles E.; Saxe, James B. (1991), "Retiming synchronous circuitry", Algorithmica, 6 (1): 5–35, CiteSeerX 10.1.1.368.3222, doi:10.1007/BF01759032, MR 1079368, S2CID 18674287
AOS.
FLL.
Flanagan, Cormac; Leino, K. Rustan M.; Lillibridge, Mark; Nelson, Greg; Saxe, James B.; Stata, Raymie (May 2002), "Extended static checking for Java", Proceedings of PLDI 2002, SIGPLAN Notices, 37 (5): 234–245, doi:10.1145/543552.512558
DNS.
Detlefs, David; Nelson, Greg; Saxe, James B. (2005), "Simplify: a theorem prover for program checking", Journal of the ACM, 52 (3): 365–473, doi:10.1145/1066100.1066102, MR 2146512, S2CID 9613854

References

  1. ^ Who's Who at SRC (PDF), DEC Systems Research Center, 1993, p. 14
  2. ^ Most Influential PLDI Paper Award, retrieved 2017-06-17
  3. ^ a b A History of the Mathematics Department Archived 2016-12-18 at the Wayback Machine, Union College, retrieved 2017-06-17
  4. ^ Putnam Competition Individual and Team Winners Archived 2014-03-12 at the Wayback Machine, Mathematical Association of America, retrieved 2017-06-17
  5. ^ James B. Saxe at the Mathematics Genealogy Project