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The Automath Archive was created by the Brouwer Institute in Nijmegen and the Formal Methods section of Eindhoven University of Technology. Started by prof. H. Barendregt, in cooperation with Rob Nederpelt, this archive project was launched to digitize valuable historical articles and other documentation concerning the Automath project.

Initiated by prof. N.G. de Bruijn, the project Automath (1967 until the early 80's) aimed at designing a language for expressing complete mathematical theories in such a way that a computer can verify the correctness. This project can be seen as the predecessor of type theoretical proof assistants such as the well known Nuprl and Coq.
(Introduction copied from the website, hope that is allowed).

Ehud, I hope this satisfies your wish for historical CS subjects.

By Niels Hoogeveen at 2006-05-20 12:08 | History | other blogs | 7531 reads

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But you should become an

But you should become an editor to make life easier for me by posting directly to the home page...

By Ehud Lamm at Sat, 2006-05-20 12:10 | login or register to post comments

Can you tell me how to

Can you tell me how to become an editor.

By Niels Hoogeveen at Sat, 2006-05-20 12:16 | login or register to post comments

It is a simple procedure:

It is a simple procedure: You send me an email, and I sign you up...

By Ehud Lamm at Sat, 2006-05-20 12:19 | login or register to post comments