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- Awardee: Xavier Leroy
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Xavier Leroy has made fundamental contributions to both the theory
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and practice of programming languages on a range of topics,
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including type system and module system design, efficient
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compilation of functional programming languages, bytecode
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verification, verified compilation, and verified static
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analysis. He is known as the main architect of the OCaml
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programming language and the author of the CompCert verified
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compiler for C. Both of these projects have had enormous impact in
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the PL community and beyond, and they have significantly pushed
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the boundaries of what is perceived as possible.
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Among Xavier Leroy’s many accomplishments, his OCaml language
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introduced numerous advances in language design and implementation
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and created a solid platform that enabled the work of thousands of
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others in both research and industry. OCaml has been used to
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build widely-used theorem provers (e.g., Coq) as well as operating
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system hypervisors (e.g., Xen). OCaml has also played a key role
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in a number of companies (Jane St. Capital) and has inspired
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numerous variants and follow-on designs (F#, Scala).
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Another enormous feat of Xavier Leroy's research is the
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development of the CompCert C compiler, which opened up a whole
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new area of activity and demonstrated the feasibility of formally
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verifying the full functional correctness of a compiler for a
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mainstream programming language. This accomplishment created a
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true change in people's perceptions of what is possible and
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inspired many researchers to succeed at similar feats across a
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variety of domains.
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2021:
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- Awardee: Robert (Bob) Harper
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