Michael J. C. Gordon

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Michael J. C. Gordon

Born February 28, 1948
Ripon, Yorkshire, England
Field Computer Science
Institution University of Cambridge
Known for HOL theorem prover

Michael J. C. Gordon, British computer scientist (born February 28, 1948).

Mike Gordon led the development of the HOL theorem prover. He was born in Ripon, Yorkshire, England. Gordon gained his Ph.D. at Edinburgh University in 1973 with a thesis entitled Evaluation and Denotation of Pure LISP Programs. He has worked at the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory since 1988, initially as a Reader, and from 1996 as a Professor. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1994.

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