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Gordon Plotkin

Gordon David Plotkin (born 9 September 1946) 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…

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Programming Computable Functions Unbounded nondeterminism Operational semantics Domain theory
Alma mater
University of Glasgow (BSc) University of Edinburgh (PhD)
Born
Gordon David Plotkin (1946-09-09) 9 September 1946 (age 79) Glasgow, Scotland
Doctoral advisor
Rod Burstall · Donald Michie
Doctoral students
Luca Cardelli · Philippa Gardner · Doug Gurr · Eugenio Moggi · Lǐ Wèi
Fields
Logic Mathematics Computer science

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Doctoral students · 5
Gordon Plotkin → Doug Gurr, Eugenio Moggi, Luca Cardelli, Lǐ Wèi, Philippa Gardner
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Gordon Plotkin → Donald Michie, Rod Burstall
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Gordon Plotkin → University of Glasgow (BSc) University of Edinburgh (PhD)
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Gordon Plotkin → Gordon David Plotkin (1946-09-09) 9 September 1946 (age 79) Glasgow, Scotland
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Gordon Plotkin → Logic Mathematics Computer science
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Gordon Plotkin → Programming Computable Functions Unbounded nondeterminism Operational semantics Domain theory
Thesis · 1
Gordon Plotkin → Automatic methods of inductive inference (1972)
Website · 1
Gordon Plotkin → homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/gdp inf.ed.ac.uk/people/staff/Gordon_Plotkin.html
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Gordon Plotkin → University of Edinburgh Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science School of Informatics University of Glasgow

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Gordon PlotkinDoctoral advisorDonald Michie1.00infobox
Gordon PlotkinDoctoral studentsLuca Cardelli1.00infobox
Gordon PlotkinDoctoral studentsPhilippa Gardner1.00infobox
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Gordon PlotkinDoctoral studentsLǐ Wèi1.00infobox
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Gordon PlotkinKnown forProgramming Computable Functions Unbounded nondeterminism Operational semantics Domain theory1.00infobox
Gordon PlotkinThesisAutomatic methods of inductive inference (1972)1.00infobox
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Gordon PlotkinWorkplacesUniversity of Edinburgh Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science School of Informatics University of Glasgow1.00infobox

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