# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dana-scott
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:49:08.594Z

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name: "Dana Scott"
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description: "Dana Stewart Scott is an American logician who is the Hillman University Professor emeritus of Computer Science, Philosophy, and Mathematical Logic at Carnegie Mellon University. He is now retired and lives in Berkeley, California. He and Michael O. Rabin won the 1976 ACM Turing Award for their work on automata theory, while his collaborative work with Christopher Strachey in the 1970s laid the foundations of modern approaches to the semantics of programming languages. He has also worked on modal logic, topology, and category theory."
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birthDate: "1932-10-11"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump