Robert W. Floyd

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Works

1

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Group

Origin

England

Active from

1965

Active to

2014

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5 total works indexed

1. Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density

   · 1988 · cited 95,746x

2. Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation

   · 2011 · cited 56,523x

3. Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support

   · 2009 · cited 46,797x

4. Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso

   · 1996 · cited 39,763x

5. The PHQ-9

   · 2001 · cited 39,459x

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Quotes

• “The establishment of formal standards for proofs about programs [...] and the proposal that the semantics of a programming language may be defined independently of all processors for that language, by establishing standards of rigor for proofs about programs in the language, appears to be novel.”
• “A semantic definition of a particular set of command types, then, is a rule for constructing, for any command of one of these types, a verification condition on the antecedents and consequents.”
• “It is, therefore, possible to extend a partially specified interpretation to a complete interpretation, without loss of verifiability, [...] This fact offers the possibility of automatic verification of programs, the programmer merely tagging entrances and one edge in each innermost loop.”
• “If the advancement of the general art of programming requires the continuing invention and elaboration of paradigms, advancement of the art of the individual programmer requires that he expand his repertory of paradigms.”
• “Although my own previous enthusiasm has been for syntactically rich languages like the Algol family, I now see clearly and concretely the force of Minsky's 1970 Turing lecture, in which he argued that Lisp's uniformity of structure and power of self reference gave the programmer capabilities whose content was well worth the sacrifice of visual form.”
• “If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.”

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