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Formal verification
Can control theory make software better?
March 19, 2013
Techniques used to ensure that airplanes won’t stall out in flight could be adapted to prove that computer programs won’t divide by zero.
Also labeled:
Control theory
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Convex optimization
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Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS)
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Lyapunov functions
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Software verification
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