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#15: Dr. Kathleen Fisher – Sparking the New Age of Formal Verification at DARPA
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#15: Dr. Kathleen Fisher – Sparking the New Age of Formal Verification at DARPA

In this episode, we chat with Dr. Kathleen Fisher, who was chair of the Computer Science department at Tufts University at the time of the interview. We talk about Kathleen’s experience in applying formal methods and PL theory to solve significant practical problems throughout her career. Equally important, we discuss how it came to be that she is practically a pro at golf!

Building Better Systems · Joey Dodds, Shpat Morina, Kathleen Fisher, Galois

January 10, 202255m 52s

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Show Notes

In this episode, we chat with Dr. Kathleen Fisher, who was chair of the Computer Science department at Tufts University at the time of the interview. We talk about Kathleen’s experience in applying formal methods and PL theory to solve significant practical problems throughout her career. Equally important, we discuss how it came to be that she is practically a pro at golf!

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Dr. Kathleen Fisher: https://www.darpa.mil/staff/dr-kathleen-fisher 

HACMS: https://www.darpa.mil/program/high-assurance-cyber-military-systems PADS: https://pads.cs.tufts.edu/about.html 

From Dirt to Shovels paper: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~dpw/papers/learningpopl08-final.pdf 

Hancock: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/331960.331981

PLMW: http://sigplan.org/Conferences/PLMW/ CRAW: https://cra.org/cra-wp/ 

NSF Broadening Participation in Computing: https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/broadening-participation-computing-bpc-0 

Joey Dodds: https://galois.com/team/joey-dodds/ 

Shpat Morina: https://galois.com/team/shpat-morina/ 

Galois, Inc.: https://galois.com/ 

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kathleen fisherdarpaformal methods