Formal Methods: Whence and Whither

Hybrid event:
*BCS-FACS AGM & Peter Landin Semantics Seminar*
*Formal Methods: Whence and Whither*
BCS London office (near Moorgate underground station) and on Zoom, 4
December 2025

Speaker: *J <https://sites.google.com/site/jpbowen/>*Jonathan Bowen
<https://sites.google.com/site/jpbowen/>* (Chair of FACS)Agenda 

 " Alan Turing arguably wrote the first paper on formal methods over 75 years
ago. Since then, there have been claims and counterclaims about formal
methods. Tool development has been slow but aided by Moore’s Law, with the
increasing power of computers. Although formal methods are not widespread
in practical usage at a heavyweight level, their influence has crept into
software engineering practice to the extent that they are no longer
necessarily called formal methods in their use. In addition, in areas where
safety and security are important, with the increasing use of computers in
such applications, formal methods are a viable way to improve the
reliability of such software-based systems. Their use in hardware, where a
mistake can be very costly, is also important. This talk explores the
journey of formal methods to the present day and speculates on future
directions, including the use of Artificial Intelligence."

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