William Cook (computer scientist)
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This article is about the programming language researcher. For the operations researcher and mathematician, see William J. Cook.
William Randall Cook[1] (November 21, 1963 – October 27, 2021) was an American computer scientist, who was an associate professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin.
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William R. Cook | |
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Born | (1963-11-21)November 21, 1963 |
Died | October 27, 2021(2021-10-27) (aged 57) Austin, Texas, U.S. |
Known for | Denotational semantics of Inheritance; Object-oriented programming; AppleScript |
Academic background | |
Education | Brown University (PhD) |
Thesis | A denotational semantics of inheritance (1989) |
Doctoral advisor | Peter Wegner |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Computer science |
Institutions | University of Texas at Austin, Apple Inc., HP Labs |
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