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Daniel Jackson

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Daniel Jackson is professor of computer science and associate director of CSAIL, MIT’s largest lab. His software research won an Impact Award and Outstanding Research Award from the Association for Computing Machinery, and he is an ACM Fellow. He is lead designer of the Alloy software modeling language. He led a National Academies study on software dependability, and has collaborated on software projects with NASA on air-traffic control, with Massachusetts General Hospital on proton therapy, and with Toyota on autonomous cars.

Jackson is also a photographer. His book Portraits of Resilience, which combines stories and images of people who've experienced mental health challenges, was featured on PBS's Newshour and NPR’s Here and Now. ...more

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	The Essence of Software: Why Concepts Matter for Great Design 4.21 avg rating — 73 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Software Abstractions: Logic, Language, And Analysis 3.87 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2006 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Portraits of Resilience by Daniel Jackson (Goodreads Author), David A. Karp (Foreword) 4.40 avg rating — 20 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Design by Concept: A New Way to Think about Software really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Software for Dependable Systems: Sufficient Evidence? by Daniel Jackson (Goodreads Author), National Research Council it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Todah VeZimrah Siddur: Hebrew Text and Music Score by Daniel Jackson (Goodreads Author), Joshua Jacobson, Andrew Greene (Designer) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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