In 2013 I moved from to industry after over 25 years in academia, when Facebook acquired a verification startup, Monoidics, that I was involved with. In this talk I’ll recount the clash of cultures I encountered, where traditionally calm and cool formal ...

Bug finders are mainstream tools used during software development that significantly improve the productivity of software engineers and lower maintenance costs. These tools search for software anomalies by scrutinising the program's code using static ...

Sound static analyses for large subsets of static programming languages such as C are now widespread. For example the Astrée static analyzer soundly overapproximates the behavior of C programs that do not contain any dynamic code loading, longjmp ...

Most Java static analysis frameworks provide an intermediate presentation (IR) of Java Bytecode to facilitate the development of static analyses. While such IRs are often based on three-address code, the transformation itself is a great opportunity to ...