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Ernest Allen Emerson is a computer scientist and endowed professor at the University of Texas, Austin, USA.
He won the 2007 A.M. Turing Award along with Edmund M. Clarke and Joseph Sifakis for their pioneering work on Model checking. He is also the recipient of the 1998 ACM Paris Kanellakis Award Theory and Practice Award for Symbolic Model Checking.
He received his BSc degree in mathematics from the University of Texas, Austin in 1976 and his PhD degree in applied mathematics at Harvard University in 1981.
Working with Edmund M. Clarke in the 1980s, he invented computation tree logic.
Emerson is a member of the ACM.
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