Texts of Speeches

Banquet speech given at the Marktoberdorf summer school, Germany.  Aug. 3, 1988
An edited version of a banquet speech given at the Marktoberdorf summer school, sponsored by NATO. It also appears in Constructive Methods in Computing Science (ed. Broy), NATO ASI series. Vol. F55, Springer-Verlag, 1989.

Inaugural lecture for Schlumberger Centennial Chair, Austin.  Jan. 25, 2002

Banquet speech given at the U.K. Grand Challenge Workshop, Edinburgh  Nov. 25, 2002
An edited version of a banquet speech given at the U.K. Grand Challenge Workshop, organized by the UK Computing Research Committee, in Edinburgh, Nov. 24-26, 2002.

In memoriam, Amit Garg, 1977 - 2003  April 14, 2003
Speech given at the University of Texas at Austin to remember Amit Garg, a student who died in a car accident.

Speech to undergraduates  May 2, 2003
Speech given at the University of Texas at Austin on the last class day in CS337.

Demonic Nondeterminacy  August 25, 2003
Speech given in a panel discussing the scientific contributions of Dahl, Dijkstra and Nygaard, at Europar-2003, Klagenfurt, Austria.

A perspective on Formal Methods in Education  June 09, 2008
Talk given at Formal Methods Outreach Conference at SRI International, Menlo Park.