Cliff Jones (computer scientist)
Clifford "Cliff" B. Jones is a British computer scientist, specializing in research into formal methods. He undertook a late DPhil at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory under Tony Hoare, awarded in 1981. He also worked with Dines Bjørner and others on the Vienna Development Method at IBM Laboratory Vienna.
Cliff Jones was a professor at the Victoria University of Manchester in the 1980s and early 1990s, worked in industry at Harlequin for a period, and is now a Professor of Computing Science at Newcastle University. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the Formal Aspects of Computing journal.
As well as formal methods, Jones also has interests in interdisciplinary aspects of computer science and the history of computer science.
He won the Katharine Burr Blodgett Medal and Prize in 2017.Books
Jones has authored and edited many books:
- Reflections on the Work of C.A.R. Hoare, Roscoe, A.W., Jones, C.B. and Wood, K.. Springer. .
- VDM: Une methode rigoureuse pour le development du logiciel, Jones, C.B. Masson, Paris. .
- MURAL: A Formal Development Support System, Jones, C.B., Jones, K.D., Lindsay, P.A. and Moore, R.. Springer-Verlag. .
- Systematic Software Development using VDM, Jones, C.B. Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, Prentice Hall., 1990
- Case Studies in Systematic Software Development, Jones, C.B. and Shaw, R.C.F.. Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, Prentice Hall. .
- Essays in Computing Science, Hoare, C.A.R. and Jones, C.B. Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, Prentice Hall. .
- Systematic Software Development using VDM, Jones, C.B. Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, Prentice Hall. .
- , Jones, C.B.. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 177, Springer-Verlag. .
- Formal Specification and Software Development, Bjørner, D. and Jones, C.B. Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, Prentice Hall. .
- Software Development: A Rigorous Approach, Jones, C.B. Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, Prentice Hall. .
- The Vienna Development Method: The Meta-Language, Bjørner, D. and Jones, C.B.. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 61, Springer-Verlag. .
