Prof. Dr. Neil D. Jones

Profile

Academic positionEmeritus
Research fieldsTheoretical Computer Science
KeywordsCompiler-Generierung, Partielle Evaluierung, Programmanalyse, Komplexitätstheorie

Current contact address

CountryDenmark
CityCopenhagen
InstitutionUniversity of Copenhagen
InstituteDepartment of Computer Sciences (DIKU)
Homepagehttp://www.diku.dk/hjemmesider/ansatte/neil/

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Peter ThiemannInstitut für Informatik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg
Prof. Dr. Andreas PodelskiInstitut für Informatik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/07/2009

Programme(s)

2008Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Jones is an internationally leading researcher in computer science specializing in programming languages. His work combines theory and practice in topics such as compiler generation, program analysis, and computational complexity. Professor Jones is known in particular for partial evaluation, which bases a practical compilation technique on a theorem about Gödel's numbering of computable functions from 1943. In Germany, he intends to investigate the staging of semantic specifications and to further his work on automatic termination and complexity analysis.