A smart contract is a computer program that allows users to automate their actions on the
blockchain platform. Given the significance of smart contracts in supporting important …

Separation logic Page 1 86 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | FEBRUARY 2019 | VOL. 62 |
NO. 2 review articles A FUNDAMENTAL TECHNIQUE in reasoning about programs is the use …

Rust is a new systems programming language that promises to overcome the seemingly
fundamental tradeoff between high-level safety guarantees and low-level control over …

Iris is a framework for higher-order concurrent separation logic, which has been
implemented in the Coq proof assistant and deployed very effectively in a wide variety of …

Important decisions about people are increasingly made by algorithms: Votes are counted;
voter rolls are purged; financial aid decisions are made; taxpayers are chosen for audits; air …

Rust is a modern systems programming language whose ownership-based type system
statically guarantees memory safety, making it particularly well-suited to the domain of safety …

Given the central role that C continues to play in systems software, and the difficulty of
writing safe and correct C code, it remains a grand challenge to develop effective formal …

When using a proof assistant to reason in an embedded logic--like separation logic--one
cannot benefit from the proof contexts and basic tactics of the proof assistant. This results in …