Gordon Plotkin
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| Born | Gordon David Plotkin 9 September 1946 Glasgow |
| Residence | Scotland |
| Nationality | British |
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Logic Computer science Mathematics |
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University of Edinburgh Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science School of Informatics University of Glasgow |
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University of Glasgow (BSc) University of Edinburgh (PhD) |
| Thesis | Automatic methods of inductive inference (1972) |
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Programming Computable Functions Unbounded nondeterminism Operational semantics Domain theory |
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Gordon David Plotkin, FRS, FRSE (born 9 September 1946) is a theoretical computer scientist in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Plotkin is probably best known for his introduction of structural operational semantics (SOS) and his work on denotational semantics. In particular, his notes on A Structural Approach to Operational Semantics were very influential. He has contributed to many other areas of computer science.
Plotkin was educated at the University of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh, gaining his Bachelor of Science degree in 1967 and PhD in 1972 supervised by Rod Burstall.
Plotkin has remained at Edinburgh, and was, with Burstall and Robin Milner, a co-founder of the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science (LFCS).
Plotkin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1992, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Member of the Academia Europæa. He is also a winner of the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. Plotkin received the 2012 Royal Society Milner Award for "his fundamental research into programming semantics with lasting impact on both the principles and design of programming languages."
His nomination for the Royal Society reads:
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