Devnology podcast 039 - David Harel

In this episode we speak with David Harel, who is professor of
computer science at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.
Born in London, England, he was Dean of the Faculty of
Mathematics and Computer Science at the institute for seven
years. Harel is best known for his work on dynamic logic,
computability and software engineering. In the 1980s he invented
the graphical language of Statecharts, which has been adopted as
part of the UML standard. He has also published expository
accounts of computer science, such as his award winning 1987 book
"Algorithmics: The Spirit of Computing". He currently works on
many diverse topics, including visual languages, graph layout,
systems biology and the communication of odours. In this
interview we touch upon different topics from David's diverse
fields of study. Among other things we talk about his earlier
work on statecharts, about some of the content of his books on
algorithmics and his current research on modeling biological
systems.



This interview was recorded on the 25th of April 2013 at the
Eindhoven University of Technology


Interview by @freekl and @Mmz_
Audio post-production by @mendelt
Links for this podcast:

David Harel's homepage from the Weizman Institute of Science
is on http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~harel/.

Book: D. Harel, Algorithmics: The Spirit of Computing,
Addison-Wesley, 3rd edition (with Y. Feldman), 2004.

Book: D. Harel, Computers Ltd.: What They Really Can't Do,
Oxford University Press, September 2000.

Article: D. Harel, "Biting the Silver Bullet: Toward a
Brighter Future for System Development", Computer 25:1 (1992),
IEEE Press, 8-20 (pdf).

Article: D. Harel, S. Maoz, S. Szekely and D. Barkan,
"PlayGo: Towards a Comprehensive Tool for Scenario Based
Programming", in Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 25th Int. Conf. on
Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2010), Antwerp, Belgium, pp.
359-360. (pdf).

A full list of publications by David Harel on his website.

On April 27th 2012 David Harel received an honorary doctorate
from Eindhoven University of Technology