This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2002, held in Copenhagen, Denmark in July 2002. The 35 revised full papers presented together with five invited contributions and 11 tool presentations were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections in symbolic model checking, abstraction/refinement and model checking, compositional/structural verification, timing analysis, SAT based methods, infinite state model checking, extended model checking, code verification, regular model checking and acceleration, and model reduction.