| Bill Roscoe | |
| Birth Place: | Dundee, Scotland |
| Citizenship: | United Kingdom |
| Nationality: | Scottish |
| Fields: | Computer science |
| Workplaces: | University of Oxford |
| Alma Mater: | University of Oxford |
| Doctoral Advisor: | C. A. R. Hoare |
| Doctoral Students: | G. Mike Reed Gavin Lowe[1] |
| Known For: | Communicating Sequential Processes |
| Thesis Title: | A Mathematical Theory of Communicating Processes |
| Thesis Year: | 1982 |
| Thesis Url: | http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ed4e2289-f817-4851-868a-00e2c4f48db5 |
Andrew William Roscoe is a Scottish computer scientist. He was Head of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford from 2003 to 2014, and is a Professor of Computer Science. He is also a Fellow of University College, Oxford.
Roscoe was born in Dundee, Scotland. He studied for a degree in mathematics at University College, Oxford, from 1975 to 1978, graduating with the top mark for his year in the university. He went on to work at the Computing Laboratory and received his DPhil in 1982. He was appointed Tutorial Fellow at University College in 1983 and served as Senior Tutor from 1993 to 1997. He was head of the Department of Computer Science 2003-08 and 2009–14.[2]
Professor Roscoe works in the area of concurrency theory, in particular the semantic underpinning of Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) and the associated occam programming language with Sir Tony Hoare.[3] He co-founded Formal Systems (Europe) Limited and worked on the algorithms for the Failures-Divergence Refinement (FDR) tool.