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Robin Milner
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British computer scientist (1934-2010)
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Robin Arthur John Milner (1934–2010) was a British computer scientist, engineer, and university teacher. Born in Plymouth and educated at Eton College and King’s College, he worked at City, University of London, Stanford University, the University of Edinburgh, and Swansea University. He was a member of the Royal Society, Academia Europaea, the French Academy of Sciences, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Milner received the Turing Award and was named an ACM Fellow and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His notable works include *Space and Motion Communicating Agents*, *Computing Tomorrow*, *The definition of standard ML*, *Action structures for the (pi)-calculus*, and *Changes to the standard ML core language*. He died of a myocardial infarction in Cambridge.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 17
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Milner
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Plymouth
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Occupation
- information scientist
- Educated at
- King's College
- Employer
- Swansea University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- computer system
- Military branch
- British Army
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- date of birth
- 1934-01-13
- date of death
- 2010-03-20
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- member of
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Erdős number
- 5
- manner of death
- natural causes
- interested in
- computer science
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- P8168
- Egyptian astronomy
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