Samson Abramsky
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Samson Abramsky FRS FRSE (born 12 March 1953) is Professor of Computer Science at University College London. He was previously the Christopher Strachey Professor of Computing at Wolfson College, Oxford, from 2000 to 2021.
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Born | (1953-03-12) 12 March 1953 (age 71)[1] |
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Thesis | Domain Theory and the Logic of Observable Properties (1987) |
Doctoral advisor | Richard Bornat[4] |
Website | www |
Abramsky's early work included profound contributions to domain theory and the connections thereof with geometric logic. Since then, his work has covered the lazy lambda calculus, strictness analysis, concurrency theory, interaction categories and geometry of interaction, game semantics and quantum computing. Notably, he co-pioneered categorical quantum mechanics. More recently, he has been applying methods from categorical semantics to finite model theory, with applications to descriptive complexity.[3][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]