Gilles Kahn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French computer scientist
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Gilles Kahn
- Gilles Kahn (April 17, 1946 – February 9, 2006) was a French computer scientist.
- He notably introduced Kahn process networks as a model for parallel processing and natural semantics for describing the operational semantics of programming languages. Gilles Kahn studied at the École polytechnique (X1964) and at Stanford.
- He became a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1997.
- He was president and director-general of INRIA from 2004 to 2006.
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