Gordon Plotkin

Gordon D. Plotkin
Born	9 September 1946 (1946-09-09) (age 65) Glasgow
Residence	Scotland
Nationality	British
Fields	logician, computer scientist, mathematician
Institutions	University of Edinburgh
Alma mater	Edinburgh
Doctoral advisor	Rod Burstall
Doctoral students	Luca Cardelli (1982) Marcelo Fiore (1994) Philippa Gardner (1992) Martin Hofmann (1995) John Longley (1995) Eugenio Moggi (1988) Mohammad Reza Mousavi (2005) Michael D. Pedersen (2010) David Pym (1990) Alex Simpson (1994) Lǐ Wèi Glynn Winskel (1980)

Gordon D. Plotkin, FRS, FRSE (born 9 September 1946, in Glasgow) is a Scottish computer scientist.

Gordon Plotkin is 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 of 1981 were very influential. He has contributed to many other areas of computer science.

Plotkin is now Professor of Theoretical Computer Science in the School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh.

Biography

Plotkin received his PhD in 1972 from the University of Edinburgh,^[1] where he studied under Rod Burstall. He has remained at Edinburgh, and was, with Burstall and Milner, a co-founder of the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science (LFCS).

Works

• 1975: "Call-by-Name, Call-by Value and the Lambda Calculus".
• A Structural Approach to Operational Semantics by G.D. Plotkin (1981)
• Program Verification and Semantics: Further Work (2004)

Awards

He 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.

See also

• Church-Rosser theorem
• Domain theory
• Golem (ILP)
• Informatics
• LFCS
• Operational semantics
• Programming language for Computable Functions
• Unbounded nondeterminism
• University of Edinburgh

References

1. ^ http://www.floc-conference.org/invited-talks.html

External links

• Official home page^{[dead link]}
• Personal home page
• Online publications
• Symposium for Gordon Plotkin

Persondata
Name	Plotkin, Gordon
Alternative names
Short description	Computer Scientist
Date of birth	9 September 1946
Place of birth	Glasgow
Date of death
Place of death

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