William Pugh

9.8k citations
91 papers · 5.8k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 36

William Pugh

89 papers receiving 5.3k citations

Hit Papers

Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs3441990202620022014200400600

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William Pugh
Comparison fields: 5 of 121
  • Software 1.9k
  • Hardware and Architecture 2.3k
  • Computer Networks and Communications 2.4k
  • Information Systems 2.2k
  • Signal Processing 677
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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The 25 scholars most cited alongside William Pugh, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 20095
2 20080
3 200747
4
RUBiS Revisited: Why J2EE Benchmarking is Hard.
20055
5 200562
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Finding bugs is easybreakdown →
2004555
7
Atomic Instructions in Java
20023
8 200235
9 20021
10 199970
11 199230
12
The definition of dependence distance
19923
13 199145
14 199027
15 19908
16
Skip lists: a probabilistic alternative to balanced treesbreakdown →
1990675
17 198824
18
A New Language Independent Prettyprinting Algorithm
19873
19 19839
20 198264

About William Pugh

William Pugh is a scholar working on Software, Hardware and Architecture, Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence, having authored 91 papers that have together received 5.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (28 papers), Software Testing and Debugging Techniques (24 papers), Software Engineering Research (22 papers), Logic, programming, and type systems (20 papers), Distributed systems and fault tolerance (11 papers), Software System Performance and Reliability (11 papers), Algorithms and Data Compression (9 papers) and Real-Time Systems Scheduling (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Software (1.9k citations), Hardware and Architecture (2.3k citations), Computer Networks and Communications (2.4k citations), Information Systems (2.2k citations) and Signal Processing (677 citations). William Pugh has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Canada and Israel. Frequent co-authors include David Hovemeyer, Nathaniel Ayewah, Jeremy Manson, Sarita V. Adve, Jaime Spacco, David Wonnacott, J. David Morgenthaler, John Penix, Wayne Kelly and Evan Rosser. Their work appears in journals such as ACM SIGPLAN Notices, ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Software and Brain Research.

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