Robert Lee Constable


Robert Lee Constable is an American computer scientist. He is a professor of computer science and first and former dean of the department at Cornell University, United States. He is known for his work on connecting computer programs and mathematical proofs, especially the Nuprl system. Alonzo Church was supervising junior thesis of Robert while he was studying in Princeton. Constable received his PhD in 1968 under Stephen Kleene and has supervised over 40 students, including Edmund M. Clarke, Robert Harper, Kurt Mehlhorn, Steven Muchnick, Pavel Naumov, and Ryan Stansifer. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Constable has been a director of the Marktoberdorf Summer School.

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