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Gordon Plotkin
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Scottish computer scientist
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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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- Works
- 3
Top works
- Memories Dreams and the Grid
- Situation Theory and Applications
- Transactions on Computational Systems Biology VI
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- David
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Glasgow
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- University of Edinburgh
- Employer
- University of Edinburgh
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Lovelace Medal
- Field of work
- computer science
- Official website
- homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/gdp
- Image
- Gordon Plotkin.jpg
- Work location
- Scotland
- Residence
- Scotland
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- date of birth
- 1946-09-09
- member of
- Association for Computing Machinery
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