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Professor Alan Burns a member of the Department of Computer Science, University of York, U.K. His research interests cover a number of aspects of real-time systems including the assessment of languages for use in the real-time domain, distributed operating systems, the formal specification of scheduling algorithms and implementation strategies, and the design of dependable user interfaces to real-time applications. Professor Burns has authored/co-authored 450 papers/reports and 15 books. Many of these are in the real-time area. His teaching activities include courses in Operating Systems and Real-time Systems. He is a member of ARTIST - the EU Centre of Excellence in Real-Time and Embedded Systems. He is editor of a recent review of real-time programming languages. In 2009 Professor Burns was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Professor Burns can be found in office D101 (Sally Baldwin), and on extension 2779. You can email him using burns within cs.york.ac.uk.

Recent Books: Concurrent Programming, Concurrency in Ada, HRT-HOOD, Concurrent and Real-Time Programming in Ada and a third edition of Real-Time Systems and Programming Languages.

Information on Pascal-FC: a teaching language for concurrent programming.

A report on the Ravenscar Profile has just published as a Departmental Yellow Report (YCS-2003-348.pdf). This is available from our ftp site.

Real-Time Research Group .

A. Burns, DPhil, CEng, FBCS, CITP, IEEE (Senior Member), FIET, FREng
Department of Computer Science,
University of York,
YORK,
YO1 5DD,
UK.

Telephone +44 (0) 1904 432779

Fax: +44 (0) 1904 432767