Daniel Jackson (computer scientist)

Daniel Jackson
Daniel Jackson
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD); University of Oxford (M.A.);
Occupation	Computer scientist
Known for	Lightweight formal methods, and the Alloy specification language
	Scientific career
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisor	John Guttag

Daniel Jackson (born 1963) is a professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is the principal designer of the Alloy modelling language, and author of the books Software Abstractions: Logic, Language, and Analysis^[1] and The Essence of Software.^[2] He leads the Software Design Group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

^ Jackson, Daniel (April 2006). Software Abstractions: Logic, Language, and Analysis. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-10114-1. Retrieved 10 January 2009.
^ Jackson, Daniel (November 2021). The Essence of Software. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-225-388. Retrieved 22 March 2024.