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Dana Scott

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Dana Stewart Scott is a retired American logician, born in 1932, who along with Michael O. Rabin received the 1976 ACM Turing Award for their joint work on automata theory. He has made seminal contributions to modal logic, set theory and the theory of programming languages, and he created domain theory, a branch of mathematics that provides a foundation for the theory of programming languages and computability.

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Birth Date
1932-10-11 1
Field
Logic 1
Nationality
American 1
Notable Work
Domain theory 1
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1. Dana Scott - Wikipedia
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    Dana Stewart Scott (born October 11, 1932) is a retired American logician.
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    Dana Stewart Scott (born October 11, 1932) is a retired American logician.
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    Dana Stewart Scott (born October 11, 1932) is a retired American logician.
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    He created domain theory, a branch of mathematics that provides a foundation for the theory of programming languages and computability.
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