Maurice Nivat
| Maurice Nivat | |
|---|---|
| Born |
21 December 1937 Clermont-Ferrand |
| Nationality | French |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | University of Paris |
| Alma mater | Joseph Fourier University |
| Doctoral advisor | Marcel-Paul Schützenberger |
| Doctoral students |
Bruno Courcelle Philippe Flajolet Gérard Huet |
Maurice Paul Nivat (born 21 December 1937) is a French computer scientist. His research spans the areas of formal languages, programming language semantics and discrete geometry. A 2006 citation for an honorary doctorate called Nivat one of the fathers of theoretical computer science. He was a Professor at the University Paris Diderot until 2001.
Nivat was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France. His parents were high-school teachers; his father taught languages while his mother taught mathematics. In 1954, Nivat moved with his family to Paris. Nivat was admitted to the École Normale Supérieure in 1956, but began working at the Blaise Pascal Institute of the French National Centre for Scientific Research, a newly established computing laboratory, in 1959. He returned to study mathematics in 1961 under the supervision of Marcel-Paul Schützenberger. His 1967 thesis was entitled Transductions des langages de Chomsky" ("Transductions of Chomsky Languages").
In 1969, Nivat became a professor at Universite Paris VII and taught until 2002. He is currently a professor emeritus.
Nivat was involved in many endeavours in theoretical computer science in Europe: he was one of the founders of the EATCS in 1972 and organized the first ICALP conference in the same year at INRIA (then called IRIA) in Paris. In 1975, he was a founder of the journal Theoretical Computer Science. He was editor-in-chief of the journal for over 25 years.
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