Time for Verification Essays in Memory of Amir Pnueli

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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen TU Dortmund University, Germany Madhu Sudan Microsoft Research, Cambridge, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

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Zohar Manna Doron A. Peled (Eds.)

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Volume Editors Zohar Manna Stanford University, Computer Science Department Stanford, CA 94305, USA E-mail: [email protected] Doron A. Peled Bar Ilan University, Department of Computer Science Ramat Gan, 52900, Israel E-mail: [email protected]

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Amir Pnueli (1941-2009)

Preface

This volume is dedicated to the memory of Amir Pnueli: a great scientist, a colleague and a friend. Amir touched our lives in several ways. As a scientist, Amir had the exceptionally deep insight that can open a new research area with a cleverly crafted paper. Having published over 250 papers, and won the Turing Award, the highest awarded recognition in computer science, Amir is no doubt one of the most brilliant and visionary computer scientists of all times. As a colleague and research collaborator, Amir steered the entire field of research in unforeseen, original, directions. As a mentor, Amir was admired by the students that were lucky to be supervised by him. Amir will always be remembered as a colleague and a friend, who, with his kin