Gordon Plotkin

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Scottish computer scientist

United Kingdom AcademicsBorn 1946 · age 80

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Awards 9

2023Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2020ACM Fellow

2018Lovelace Medal

2014EATCS award

2012Milner Award and Lecture

2010Programming Languages Achievement Award

Fellow of the Royal Society

Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship

Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Connected to Gordon 6

Xavier LeroyAlso won Milner Award and Lecture

Gérard HuetAlso won EATCS award

Georg GottlobAlso won Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship

John C. ReynoldsAlso won Lovelace Medal

Radhia CousotAlso won Programming Languages Achievement Award

Kurt MehlhornAlso won EATCS award

About this person

Gordon David Plotkin 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.

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