Michael Norrish
Principal Researcher; Associate Professor, ANU
Research Interests
Michael is interested in the use of mathematics and logic to help in the specification and development of computer hardware and software. He is interested both in working on specific applications projects in this area, and in the development of tools to make all such projects easier to work on. Michael now is a Associate Professor at ANU.
Contact Details
Phone: | +61 2 6218 3719 |
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Email: | Michael.Norrish@anu.edu.au |
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More contact information is available at the
Contact page.
Publication List
Michael is interested in the use of mathematics and logic to help in the specification and development of computer hardware and software. He is interested both in working on specific applications projects in this area, and in the development of tools to make all such projects easier to work on.
Qualifications
PhD [University of Cambridge, 1999]; BSc(Hons) [Victoria University of Wellington, 1993]; BA, BSc [Victoria University of Wellington, 1992]
Steering Committees
Interactive Theorem Proving, Certified Programs and Proofs
Program Committees and Editorial Boards
PLDI 2015 ITP 2014 CPP 2013 ITP 2013 ESOP 2013 EMSOFT 2012 CAV 2011 CPP 2011 ITP 2011 ITP 2010 TPHOLs 2009 LICS 2008
Publications
- Google Scholar profile
- Best Papers
- TS Group Papers (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003)
- Papers not affiliated with TS (0)
- Research Theses Supervised
Best Papers
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Ramana Kumar, Magnus Myreen, Michael Norrish and Scott Owens
CakeML: A verified implementation of ML
ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, pp. 179–191, San Diego, January, 2014 |

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Gerwin Klein, Kevin Elphinstone, Gernot Heiser, June Andronick, David Cock, Philip Derrin, Dhammika Elkaduwe, Kai Engelhardt, Rafal Kolanski, Michael Norrish, Thomas Sewell, Harvey Tuch and Simon Winwood
seL4: Formal verification of an OS kernel
ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp. 207–220, Big Sky, MT, USA, October, 2009 Best Paper Award Hall of Fame Award |
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Harvey Tuch, Gerwin Klein and Michael Norrish
Types, bytes, and separation logic
ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, pp. 97–108, Nice, France, January, 2007 |
Trustworthy Systems Group Papers
2020
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Michael Norrish and Yiming Xu
Mechanised modal model theory
International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, pp. 518-533, Paris, July, 2020 |
2019
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Andreas Lööw, Ramana Kumar, Yong Kiam Tan, Magnus Myreen, Michael Norrish, Oskar Abrahamsson and Anthony Fox
Verified compilation on a verified processor
ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, pp. 1041-1053, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America, June, 2019 |
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Hing-Lun Chan and Michael Norrish
Proof pearl: Bounding least common multiples with triangles
Journal of Automated Reasoning, Volume 62, Issue 2, pp. 171-192, February, 2019 |
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Yong Kiam Tan, Magnus Myreen, Ramana Kumar, Anthony Fox, Scott Owens and Michael Norrish
The verified CakeML compiler backend
Journal of Functional Programming, Volume 29, February, 2019 |
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Steve Bishop, Matthew Fairbairn, Hannes Mehnert, Michael Norrish, Tom Ridge, Peter Sewell, Michael Smith and Keith Wanbrough
Engineering with logic: Rigorous test-oracle specification and validation for TCP/IP and the sockets API
Journal of the ACM, Volume 66, Issue 1, January, 2019 |
2018
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Milad Ghale, Dirk Pattinson, Ramana Kumar and Michael Norrish
Verified certificate checking for counting votes
Verified Software: Theories, Tools and Experiments, pp. 69–87, Oxford, December, 2018 |
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Son Ho, Oskar Abrahamsson, Ramana Kumar, Magnus Myreen, Yong Kiam Tan and Michael Norrish
Proof-producing synthesis of CakeML with I/O and local state from monadic HOL functions
International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, pp. 646-662, Oxford, July, 2018 |
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Simon Jantsch and Michael Norrish
Verifying the LTL to Büchi automata translation via very weak alternating automata
International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving, pp. 306-323, Oxford, July, 2018 |
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Kunshan Wang, Stephen Blackburn, Tony Hosking and Michael Norrish
Hop, skip, & jump: Practical on-stack replacement for a cross-platform language-neutral VM
International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments, pp. 1-16, Williamsburg, VA, March, 2018 |
2017
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Scott Owens, Michael Norrish, Ramana Kumar, Yong Kiam Tan and Magnus Myreen
Verifying efficient function calls in CakeML
International Conference on Functional Programming, Oxford, September, 2017 |
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Armaël Guéneau, Magnus Myreen, Ramana Kumar and Michael Norrish
Verified characteristic formulae for CakeML
European Symposium on Programming, pp. 584–610, Uppsala, Sweden, April, 2017 |
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Armaël Guéneau, Magnus Myreen, Ramana Kumar and Michael Norrish
Verified characteristic formulae for CakeML
European Symposium on Programming, pp. 584-610, Uppsala, April, 2017 |
2016
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Yong Kiam Tan, Magnus Myreen, Ramana Kumar, Anthony Fox, Scott Owens and Michael Norrish
A new verified compiler backend for CakeML
International Conference on Functional Programming, pp. 14, Nara, Japan, September, 2016 |
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Yi Lin, Steve Blackburn, Tony Hosking and Michael Norrish
Rust as a language for high performance GC implementation
International Symposium on Memory Management, pp. 89–98, Santa Barbara, California, USA, June, 2016 |
2015
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Mohammad Abdulaziz, Charles Gretton and Michael Norrish
Verified over-approximation of the diameter of propositionally factored transition systems
International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving, pp. 1–16, Nanjing, China, August, 2015 |
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Joseph Chan and Michael Norrish
Mechanisation of AKS algorithm: Part 1 — the main theorem
International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving, pp. 117–136, Nanjing, China, August, 2015 |
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Mohammad Abdulaziz, Charles Gretton and Michael Norrish
Exploiting symmetries by planning for a descriptive quotient
Proceedings of the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1479–1486, Buenos Aires, July, 2015 |
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Yi Lin, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kunshan Wang, Tony Hosking and Michael Norrish
Stop and go: Understanding yieldpoint behavior
International Symposium on Memory Management, pp. 70–80, Portland, OR, USA, June, 2015 |
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Michael Norrish and Michelle Mills Strout
An approach for proving the correctness of inspector/executor transformations
Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, pp. 131–145, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA, May, 2015 |
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Kunshan Wang, Yi Lin, Stephen M Blackburn, Michael Norrish and Tony Hosking
Draining the swamp: Micro virtual machines as a solid foundation for language development
SNAPL, pp. 321–336, Asilomar, California, May, 2015 |
2014
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Thibault Gauthier, Cezary Kaliszyk, Chantal Keller and Michael Norrish
Beagle as a HOL4 external ATP method
Practical Aspects of Automated Reasoning, pp. 50–59, Vienna, July, 2014 |

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Mohammad Abdulaziz, Charles Gretton and Michael Norrish
Mechanising theoretical upper bounds in planning
Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling, Portsmouth, USA, June, 2014 |
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Aditi Barthwal and Michael Norrish
A mechanisation of some context-free language theory in HOL4
Journal of Computer and System Sciences, Volume 80, Number 2, pp. 346–362, March, 2014 |
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Ramana Kumar, Magnus Myreen, Michael Norrish and Scott Owens
CakeML: A verified implementation of ML
ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, pp. 179–191, San Diego, January, 2014 |
2013
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Joseph Chan and Michael Norrish
A string of pearls: Proofs of fermat's little theorem
Journal of Formal Reasoning, Volume 6, Number 1, pp. 63–87, December, 2013 |
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Andreas Bauer, Peter Baumgartner, Diller Martin and Michael Norrish
Tableaux for verification of data-centric processes
Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods, pp. 28–43, Nancy, France, September, 2013 |

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Michael Norrish and Brian Huffman
Ordinals in HOL: Transfinite arithmetic up to (and beyond) $\omega_1$
International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving, pp. 133–146, Rennes, France, July, 2013 |
2012
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Hing-Lun Chan and Michael Norrish
A string of pearls: Proofs of fermat’s little theorem
International Conference on Certified Programs and Proofs, pp. 188–207, Kyoto, Japan, October, 2012 |
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James Cheney, Michael Norrish and René Vestergaard
Formalizing adequacy: A case study for higher-order abstract syntax
Journal of Automated Reasoning, Volume 49, Number 2, pp. 209–239, August, 2012 |
2011

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Michael Norrish
Mechanised computability theory
International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving, pp. 297—311, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, August, 2011 |
2010
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Aditi Barthwal and Michael Norrish
A formalisation of the normal forms of context-free grammars in HOL4
19th EACSL Annual Conferences on Computer Science Logic, pp. 95–109, Brno, Czech Republic, August, 2010 |
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Aditi Barthwal and Michael Norrish
Mechanisation of PDA and grammar equivalence for context-free languages
17th Workshop on Logic, Language, Information and Computation , pp. 125–135, Brasília, Brazil, July, 2010 |

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Ramana Kumar and Michael Norrish
(nominal) unification by recursive descent with triangular substitutions
International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving, pp. 51–66, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, July, 2010 |
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Gerwin Klein, June Andronick, Kevin Elphinstone, Gernot Heiser, David Cock, Philip Derrin, Dhammika Elkaduwe, Kai Engelhardt, Rafal Kolanski, Michael Norrish, Thomas Sewell, Harvey Tuch and Simon Winwood
seL4: Formal verification of an operating-system kernel
Communications of the ACM, Volume 53, Number 6, pp. 107–115, June, 2010 Research Highlights paper |
2009

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Gerwin Klein, Kevin Elphinstone, Gernot Heiser, June Andronick, David Cock, Philip Derrin, Dhammika Elkaduwe, Kai Engelhardt, Rafal Kolanski, Michael Norrish, Thomas Sewell, Harvey Tuch and Simon Winwood
seL4: Formal verification of an OS kernel
ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp. 207–220, Big Sky, MT, USA, October, 2009 Best Paper Award Hall of Fame Award |
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Michael Norrish
Rewriting conversions implemented with continuations
Journal of Automated Reasoning, Volume 43, Number 3, pp. 305–336, October, 2009 |
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Simon Winwood, Gerwin Klein, Thomas Sewell, June Andronick, David Cock and Michael Norrish
Mind the gap: A verification framework for low-level C
International Conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics, pp. 500–515, Munich, Germany, August, 2009 |
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Aditi Barthwal and Michael Norrish
Verified, executable parsing
European Symposium on Programming, pp. 160–174, York, March, 2009 |
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James Cheney, René Vestergaard and Michael Norrish
Formalizing adequacy
2nd International Workshop on Theory and Applications of Abstraction, Substitution and Naming, York, March, 2009 |
2008
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Konrad Slind and Michael Norrish
A brief overview of HOL4
International Conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics, pp. 28–32, Montréal, Canada, August, 2008 |
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Tom Ridge, Michael Norrish and Peter Sewell
A rigorous approach to networking: TCP, from implementation to protocol to service
International Symposium on Formal Methods (FM), pp. 294—309, Turku, Finland, May, 2008 |
2007
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Michael Norrish
A formal semantics for c++
Technical Report, NICTA, November, 2007 |
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Michael Norrish and René Vestergaard
Proof pearl: de bruijn terms really do work
International Conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics, pp. 207–222, Kaiserslautern, September, 2007 |
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Gerwin Klein, Michael Norrish, Kevin Elphinstone and Gernot Heiser
Verifying a high-performance micro-kernel
7th Annual High-Confidence Software and Systems Conference, Baltimore, MD, USA, May, 2007 |
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Harvey Tuch, Gerwin Klein and Michael Norrish
Types, bytes, and separation logic
ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, pp. 97–108, Nice, France, January, 2007 |
2006
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Steve Bishop, Matthew Fairbairn, Michael Norrish, Peter Sewell, Michael Smith and Keith Wansbrough
Engineering with logic: HOL specification and symbolic-evaluation testing for TCP implementations
ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages, pp. 55—66, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, January, 2006 |
2005
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Steve Bishop, Matthew Fairbairn, Michael Norrish, Peter Sewell, Michael Smith and Keith Wansbrough
Rigorous specification and conformance testing techniques for network protocols, as applied to TCP, UDP, and sockets
ACM Conference on Communications, pp. 265–276, Philadelphia, August, 2005 |
2004

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Michael Norrish
Recursive function definition for types with binders
International Conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics, pp. 241—256, Park City, Utah, United States, September, 2004 |
2003

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Michael Norrish
Complete integer decision procedures as derived rules in HOL
International Conference on Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics, pp. 71–86, Rome, September, 2003 |
Papers without TS Affiliation
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Joseph Chan and Michael Norrish
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Research Theses Supervised
2018
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Mohammad Abdulaziz
Formally verified compositional algorithms for factored transition systems
PhD Thesis, Australian National University, June, 2018
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