E. Allen Emerson

E. Allen Emerson
E. Allen Emerson
Born	June 2, 1954; Dallas, Texas
Citizenship	United States
Education	Harvard (PhD 1981); UT Austin (BS 1976);
Known for	Model checking; Symbolic model checking; Computation tree logic; CTL*;
Awards	Turing Award (2007); Paris Kanellakis Award (1998);
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	UT Austin, United States
Doctoral advisor	Edmund M. Clarke

Ernest Allen Emerson II (born June 2, 1954), better known as E. Allen Emerson, is an American computer scientist and winner of the 2007 Turing Award. He is Professor and Regents Chair Emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, United States.

Emerson is recognized together with Edmund M. Clarke and Joseph Sifakis for the invention and development of model checking, a technique used in formal verification of software and hardware. His contributions to temporal logic and modal logic include the introduction of computation tree logic (CTL) and its extension CTL*, which are used in the verification of concurrent systems. He is also recognized along with others for developing symbolic model checking to address combinatorial explosion that arises in many model checking algorithms.

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