William Cook (computer scientist)
William R. Cook | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 21, 1963 |
| Died | October 27, 2021 (aged 57) Austin, Texas, U.S. |
| Known for | Denotational semantics of Inheritance; Object-oriented programming; AppleScript |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Brown University (PhD) |
| Thesis | A denotational semantics of inheritance (1989) |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter Wegner |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Computer science |
| Institutions | University of Texas at Austin, Apple Inc., HP Labs |
William Randall Cook (November 21, 1963 – October 27, 2021) was an American computer scientist, who was an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin.