Alan Burns is a professor in the

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Department at the

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. He has been at the University of York since 1990, and held the post of Head of department from 1999 until 30 June 2006, when he was succeeded by John McDermid. He is a member of the department's Real-Time Systems Research Group, and has authored or co-authored over 300 publications, with a large proportion of them concentrating on real-time systems and the

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. Burns has been actively involved in the creation of the

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, a subset of Ada's tasking model, designed to enable the analysis of real-time programs for their timing properties. In 2006, Alan Burns was awarded the Annual Technical Achievement Award for technical achievement and leadership by the

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Technical Committee on Real-time Systems. In 2009, he was elected

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of the

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. He is also a Fellow of the

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(BCS) and the

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(IET), and a Fellow of the

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(IEEE).

Books

Alan Burns has written a number of computer science books.Alan Burns

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References

External links

Alan Burns departmental home page

Personal home page
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