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| 1 | +2022: |
| 2 | +- Awardee: Xavier Leroy |
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| 5 | + Xavier Leroy has made fundamental contributions to both the theory |
| 6 | + and practice of programming languages on a range of topics, |
| 7 | + including type system and module system design, efficient |
| 8 | + compilation of functional programming languages, bytecode |
| 9 | + verification, verified compilation, and verified static |
| 10 | + analysis. He is known as the main architect of the OCaml |
| 11 | + programming language and the author of the CompCert verified |
| 12 | + compiler for C. Both of these projects have had enormous impact in |
| 13 | + the PL community and beyond, and they have significantly pushed |
| 14 | + the boundaries of what is perceived as possible. |
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| 16 | + Among Xavier Leroy’s many accomplishments, his OCaml language |
| 17 | + introduced numerous advances in language design and implementation |
| 18 | + and created a solid platform that enabled the work of thousands of |
| 19 | + others in both research and industry. OCaml has been used to |
| 20 | + build widely-used theorem provers (e.g., Coq) as well as operating |
| 21 | + system hypervisors (e.g., Xen). OCaml has also played a key role |
| 22 | + in a number of companies (Jane St. Capital) and has inspired |
| 23 | + numerous variants and follow-on designs (F#, Scala). |
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| 25 | + Another enormous feat of Xavier Leroy's research is the |
| 26 | + development of the CompCert C compiler, which opened up a whole |
| 27 | + new area of activity and demonstrated the feasibility of formally |
| 28 | + verifying the full functional correctness of a compiler for a |
| 29 | + mainstream programming language. This accomplishment created a |
| 30 | + true change in people's perceptions of what is possible and |
| 31 | + inspired many researchers to succeed at similar feats across a |
| 32 | + variety of domains. |
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1 | 34 | 2021:
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2 | 35 | - Awardee: Robert (Bob) Harper
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