Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK - Softcover

Mccormick, John W

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107656842 ISBN 13: 9781107656840

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

This is the first introduction to the SPARK 2014 language and the tools to verify programs for safety- and security-critical applications.

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About the Authors

John McCormick is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Northern Iowa. He began his career at the State University of New York in 1979. He has served as secretary, treasurer and chair of the Association for Computer Machinery Special Interest Group on Ada. In 1993 John was awarded the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. He received the Special Interest Group on Ada Distinguished Service Award in 2002, as well as the Outstanding Ada Community Contributions Award in 2008. His additional awards include the Special Interest Group on Ada Best Paper and Presentation Award, and the Ada Europe Best Presentation Award.

Peter Chapin is a Professor of Computer Information Systems at Vermont Technical College (VTC). Peter started at VTC in 1986 as an instructor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology department teaching courses on microcontrollers and C programming. Since 2009 Peter has been Software Director of VTC's CubeSat Laboratory where he has worked with students using Ada and SPARK to program small scale nano-satellites. VTC successfully launched a working CubeSat satellite into low Earth orbit on November 19, 2013. It is the first CubeSat programmed using SPARK.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107656842
• ISBN 13: 9781107656840
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 382