About: Gordon Plotkin

Gordon D. Plotkin, FRS is a Scottish computer scientist. Gordon Plotkin is 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 of 1981 were very influential. He has contributed to many other areas of computer science. Plotkin is now Professor of Theoretical Computer Science in the School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh.

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dbpprop:abstract	Gordon D. Plotkin, FRS is a Scottish computer scientist. Gordon Plotkin is 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 of 1981 were very influential. He has contributed to many other areas of computer science. Plotkin is now Professor of Theoretical Computer Science in the School of Informatics at The University of Edinburgh. Sviluppò la semantica operazionale strutturale ed ha lavorato anche sulla semantica denotazionale. In particolare, le sue note su A Structural Approach to Operational Semantics del 1981 furono molto influenti.
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