J Strother Moore

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J Strother Moore (his first name is the alphabetic character "J" – not an abbreviated "J.") is a computer scientist, and he is a co-developer of the Boyer-Moore string search algorithm and the Boyer-Moore automated theorem prover, Nqthm. A good example of the workings of the Boyer-Moore string search algorithm is given in his website along with the Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm.

In addition, he is a co-author of the ACL2 automated theorem prover. Moore used ACL2 to prove the correctness of the floating point division operations of the AMD K5 microprocessor in the wake of the Pentium FDIV bug.

For his contributions to automated deduction, he received the 1999 Herbrand Award with Robert S. Boyer, and in 2006 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

He is currently the Admiral B.R. Inman Centennial Chair in Computing Theory at The University of Texas at Austin.

Before joining the Department of Computer Sciences as the chair, he formed a company, Computational Logic Inc., along with others that included his close friend at the University of Texas at Austin and one of the highly regarded professors in the field of Automated Reasoning, Robert S. Boyer.

Moore enjoys rock climbing.^{[citation needed]}