Gordon Plotkin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Gordon Plotkin

Computer Scientist

Date of Birth: 09-Sep-1946

Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Profession: engineer, computer scientist, university teacher

Nationality: Scotland

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

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 very influential.
He has contributed to many other areas of computer science.