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Randal Bryant
Bryant in 2006
Born
(1952-10-27) October 27, 1952 (age 71)
United States
Alma mater
University of Michigan
Known for
Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs), formal hardware and software verification
Awards
Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award Phil Kaufman Award
Scientific career
Fields
Hardware, system software, networking
Institutions
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Randal E. Bryant (born October 27, 1952) is an American computer scientist and academic noted for his research on formally verifying digital hardware and software. Bryant has been a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University since 1984. He served as the Dean of the School of Computer Science (SCS) at Carnegie Mellon from 2004 to 2014. Dr. Bryant retired and became a Founders University Professor Emeritus on June 30, 2020.
Bryant has received many recognitions for his research on hardware and software verification as well as algorithms and computer architecture. His 1986 paper on symbolic Boolean manipulation using Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) has the highest citation count of any publication in the Citeseer database of computer science literature.[1] In 2009 Bryant was awarded the Phil Kaufman Award by the EDA Consortium "for his seminal technological breakthroughs in the area of formal verification."
^"Most cited source documents". Citeseer. September 2006. Retrieved March 5, 2007.
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reelection to a third term after comfortably defeating Republican nominee Bryant Messner by 15.6 points and sweeping every single county in the state. This...