Gordon Plotkin
Gordon D. Plotkin, FRS, FRSE (born 9 September 1946) 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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