" French professor wins big award "
https://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2017-01/20/content_28011407.htm French professor wins big award By Zhang Kun | China Daily USA | Updated: 2017-01-20 12:28 Professor Jean-Raymond Abrial was on Jan 9 awarded China's international science and technology cooperation award for his work on developing a software that is vital to the operations of Line 17, the city's only unmanned metro line that will be launched this year. The software being used in Shanghai was jointly developed by the 78-year-old Frenchman and the School of Computer Science and Software Engineering (SCSSE) at East China Normal University. Abrial, the only foreign scientist from Shanghai to win the award, is the creator of B-Method, a software development method that has been used to design safety-critical system applications for metro networks in more than 20 cities all over the world. B-Method was also critical to the design of Line 14 in Paris, the first unmanned line in France which w...