Luca Cardelli
Italian computer scientist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Luca Andrea Cardelli FRS is an Italian computer scientist who is a research professor at the University of Oxford, UK.[6][3][7][8] Cardelli is well known for his research in type theory and operational semantics.[9][10] Among other contributions, in programming languages, he helped design the language Modula-3, implemented the first compiler for the (non-pure) functional language ML, defined the concept of typeful programming, and helped develop the experimental language Polyphonic C#.[1][11][12][13][14]
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Luca Cardelli | |
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Born | Luca Andrea Cardelli Montecatini Terme, Italy |
Alma mater | University of Pisa University of Edinburgh (PhD) |
Known for | Theory of Objects[1] |
Awards | Dahl–Nygaard Prize (2007)[2] ACM Fellow (2005) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Theory of programming languages Process algebra Systems biology Molecular Programming[3] |
Institutions | Bell Labs Microsoft Research Digital Equipment Corporation University of Edinburgh University of Oxford[4] |
Thesis | An algebraic approach to hardware description and verification (1982) |
Doctoral advisor | Gordon Plotkin[5] |
Website | lucacardelli |
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