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Gordon Plotkin

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Gordon Plotkin · Technology & Engineering

What

Computer & information scientist

When

1946, Glasgow, Scotland

Where

United Kingdom

Biography

Gordon Plotkin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Computer & information scientist

How & why

Gordon Plotkin is a British theoretical computer scientist at the University of Edinburgh whose structural operational semantics gave a rigorous, widely used way to define the meaning of programming languages, and who made foundational contributions to domain theory, type theory and logics for computation. He is regarded as one of the most influential figures in programming-language theory. He is of Jewish background and is listed among Jewish computer scientists.

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Source: Jinfo.org — JEWISH COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENTISTS

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Computer & information scientist

Source: Jinfo.org — JEWISH COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENTISTS