Dana Scott, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Dana Scott

American mathematician and computer scientist

Date of Birth: 11-Oct-1932

Place of Birth: Berkeley, California, United States

Profession: engineer, computer scientist, mathematician, university teacher, topologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Dana Scott

  • Dana Stewart Scott (born October 11, 1932) is the emeritus Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy, and Mathematical Logic at Carnegie Mellon University; he is now retired and lives in Berkeley, California.
  • His research career involved computer science, mathematics, and philosophy.
  • His work on automata theory earned him the ACM Turing Award in 1976, while his collaborative work with Christopher Strachey in the 1970s laid the foundations of modern approaches to the semantics of programming languages.
  • He has worked also on modal logic, topology, and category theory.

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