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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Hi everybody!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Join ACM this
</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Wednesday (today) for <span style="color:black">
a presentation by Dr. Gordon Stewart on how to verify a compiler. Verifying a compiler means building a mathematical proof – preferably checked by computer – that the compiler faithfully translates source programs to target programs. In this talk, he’ll discuss
how to go about verifying a compiler, and why, using as a case study Xavier Leroy’s CompCert (</span></span><span style="color:black">[http://compcert.inria.fr)]</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><a href="http://compcert.inria.fr">http://compcert.inria.fr</a>),
the first verified optimizing compiler for C. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">The event will be at 7:30 pm in ARC 106, and pizza will be provided.<br>
Hope to see you there!<br>
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Kim Fisher<br>
President, Association for Computing Machinery <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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