School of Computing Science

Prof David Watt

Prof. David Watt
  • Professor of Computing Science (Computing Science)

telephone: 01413304470
email: David.Watt@glasgow.ac.uk


Personal site: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~daw

Biography:
Prof. David Watt is a Professor of Computing Science and a member of the Software Engineering & Information Security group. He received his PhD from the University of Glasgow in 1974. His teaching is primarily in programming, programming languages, algorithms and data structures. He has written eight textbooks, and is currently writing a popular computing science book. He is heavily involved in educational policy, development of taught postgraduate programmes, and internationalisation. He has been convener of the University’s Academic Standards Committee since 2004, and has led a reform of the University’s academic year. Recently he became a QAA Institutional Reviewer. He is a member of the BCS.

Research Interests:
Design, specification, and implementation of programming languages.

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2010

St-Pierre, D.L., Winands, M.H.M., and Watt, D.A. (2010) A selective move generator for the game Axis and Allies. In: IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Games, 18-21 Oct 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark.

2009

Watt, D.A. (2009) Action semantics in retrospect. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5700 . pp. 4-20. ISSN 0302-9743 (doi:10.1007/978-3-642-04164-8_2)

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