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Also known as Gordon David Plotkin, Gordon D. Plotkin

britischer theoretischer Informatiker

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Gordon David Plotkin is a male computer scientist, engineer, and university teacher born in Glasgow in 1946. He is a citizen of the United Kingdom and resides in Scotland, where he works at the University of Edinburgh. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh and speaks English. His professional fields include informatics, artificial intelligence, semantics, and programming language.

Plotkin has received several awards, including the Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a member of the Royal Society, Academia Europaea, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His doctoral students include Luca Cardelli and Eugenio Moggi.

He is the author of works such as *Memories Dreams and the Grid*, *Situation Theory and Applications*, and *Transactions on Computational Systems Biology VI*. His work is recognized in the Royal Society collection and the American Academy Arts Sciences collection.

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Gordon David Plotkin (* 9. September 1946 in Glasgow) ist ein britischer theoretischer Informatiker.Plotkin studierte an der Universität Glasgow und der University of Edinburgh mit dem Bachelor-Abschluss 1967 und der Promotion in Informatik bei (* 1934) 1972 (Automatic methods of inductive inference). Er wurde Professor in Edinburgh, wo er mit Burstall und Robin Milner das Labor für Grundlagen der Informatik (Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, LFCS) gründete. Er ist für die Einführung der Strukturellen Operationellen Semantik (SOS, auch Small Step Semantics) in die Theorie der Programmiersprachen bekannt. Er befasst sich auch mit denotationeller Semantik, Typentheorie, Domänen-theoretische und kategorientheoretische Analyse in der Informatik, allgemeiner Beweistheorie, Semantik natürlicher Sprachen, Prozess-Kalküle und computergestützten Modellen in der Biologie und Chemie. 2014 erhielt er den EATCS-Award. Er ist Fellow der Royal Society (1992), Fellow der Royal Society of Edinburgh und Mitglied der Academia Europaea (1989). Er erhielt den Wolfson Research Merit Award und 2012 den Milner Award der Royal Society. 2011 erhielt er die Blaise-Pascal-Medaille, 2018 die Lovelace Medal.

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