William Pugh
For other uses, see William Pugh (disambiguation).
| Bill Pugh | |
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| Born | June 14, 1960 |
| Fields | Computer Science, Software Engineering |
| Institutions | University of Maryland, College Park |
| Alma mater | Cornell University |
| Thesis | Incremental computation and the incremental evaluation of functional programs (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ray "Tim" Teitelbaum |
| Known for | Skiplist, FindBugs |
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William Worthington "Bill" Pugh Jr. (born 1960) is an American computer scientist who invented the skip list and the Omega test for deciding Presburger arithmetic. He was the co-author of the static code analysis tool FindBugs, and was highly influential in the development of the current memory model of the Java language.
Since 2012, he is professor emeritus of the University of Maryland Department of Computer Science in College Park, and also sat on the technical advisory board for the static analysis company Fortify Software.
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