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Dana Scott

1932 - Today

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Dana Stewart Scott (born October 11, 1932) is an American logician who 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 work on automata theory earned him the 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 also worked on modal logic, topology, and category theory. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dana Scott is the 84th most popular computer scientist (down from 66th in 2019), the 4,721st most popular biography from United States (down from 3,977th in 2019) and the 50th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Dana Scott ranks 84 out of 245. Before him are Warren Weaver, Evelyn Berezin, Ruzena Bajcsy, Edwin Catmull, Larry Tesler, and Nolan Bushnell. After him are Jay Wright Forrester, Joseph Sifakis, Martin Hellman, Ninoslav Marina, Radia Perlman, and John Henry Holland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Dana Scott ranks 232. Before him are Yakir Aharonov, Enzo Mari, Jean Stablinski, Tommy Taylor, Jean-Paul Rappeneau, and Oleg Protopopov. After him are Carlos Borges, Larry Evans, Ivor Richard, Saye Zerbo, Atef Ebeid, and Louis Rwagasore.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dana Scott ranks 4,721 out of 20,380. Before him are Charles Bickford (1891), Albert Sidney Johnston (1803), John Doman (1945), Zora Neale Hurston (1891), Jimmy Smits (1955), and Larry Black (1951). After him are Evelyn McHale (1923), Steven Hill (1922), Andrew Blake (1947), Melanie Thornton (1967), Steve Jackson (1953), and Ken Jenkins (1940).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Dana Scott ranks 50. Before him are Fred Brooks (1931), Warren Weaver (1894), Evelyn Berezin (1925), Edwin Catmull (1945), Larry Tesler (1945), and Nolan Bushnell (1943). After him are Jay Wright Forrester (1918), Martin Hellman (1945), Radia Perlman (1951), John Henry Holland (1929), Evan Williams (1972), and Edward Feigenbaum (1936).

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