The Birth of Model Checking

Sharing Ed Clarke’s 2007 lecture on the origin of model checking. Yes, it includes Bud!

The Birth of Model Checking

Ed_Clarke-The_Birth_of_Model_Checking.pdf (445.8 KB)

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Crazy to read about Bud as a “student”

Back when Bud was a student he told Ivan Sutherland about his work on hardware verification. Sutherland told him it was a fool’s errand because hardware engineers would never learn model checking. But within a few years…

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Wow! Pretty common with big ideas for most people to miss the forest for the trees