William Cook (computer scientist)

William R. Cook
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	Brown University
Known for	Denotational semantics of Inheritance; Object-oriented programming; AppleScript
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	University of Texas at Austin, Apple Inc., HP Labs
Doctoral advisor	Peter Wegner

William R. Cook (born 1963) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1989 at Brown University. His research concentrates on object-oriented programming, programming languages, modeling languages, and the interface between programming languages and databases. Prior to joining UT in 2003, he was Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Allegis Corporation, where he was chief architect for several award-winning products, including the eBusiness Suite at Allegis, the Writer's Solution for Prentice Hall, and the AppleScript language at Apple Computer.

At HP Labs his research was on the foundations of object-oriented languages, including formal models of mixins, inheritance, and typed models of object-oriented languages.

Cook won the won the Senior Dahl–Nygaard Prize in 2014.

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