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2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Dexter Kozen’s Influence on the Theory of Labelled Markov Processes
Author : Prakash Panangaden
Published in: Logic and Program Semantics
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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In the Fall of 1985 Dexter and I both started at Cornell as new faculty members in the celebrated Computer Science Department, home to luminaries such as Juris Hartmanis, John Hopcroft, David Gries and Robert Constable. I was a very new assistant professor but Dexter was already an acknowledged star with celebrated contributions to several areas: algebra and complexity, decision procedures for real-closed fields [1], dynamic logic [2-4] and many other areas across both tracks of theoretical computer science. I had no doctorate in computer science, hardly any publications and no clearly defined research area. Early in the term Dexter summoned me to his office and grilled me about work I was doing on nondeterministic dataflow. After that meeting I needed several glasses of beer to recover but a lasting friendship was sealed.