Robin Milner

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Robin Milner was a pioneering British computer scientist known for his foundational work in programming language theory, type systems, and process calculi, including the development of ML and the π-calculus.

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Robin Milner canonical 17

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instanceOf British person
computer scientist
person
awardReceived Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
surface form: ACM Fellowship

IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award
surface form: Computer Pioneer Award

Royal Medal
surface form: Royal Medal of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
surface form: Royal Society Fellowship

Turing Award
birthDate 1934-01-13
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
deathDate 2010-03-20
educatedAt King’s College, Cambridge
Cambridge University
surface form: University of Cambridge
employer Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge
surface form: Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Cambridge University
surface form: University of Cambridge

University of Edinburgh
familyName Milner
fieldOfWork computer science
concurrency theory
formal methods
process calculi
programming language theory
type systems
fullName Arthur John Robin Gorell Milner
givenName Arthur
John
Robin
influenced design of F#
design of Haskell
design of OCaml
functional programming languages
type inference in programming languages
influencedBy Christopher Strachey
Dana Scott
knownFor CCS (Calculus of Communicating Systems)
Hindley–Milner type system
LCF theorem prover
ML
surface form: ML programming language

Standard ML
structural operational semantics
theory of concurrency
π-calculus
language English
memberOf Royal Society
Royal Society of Edinburgh
nationality British
notableStudent Gordon Plotkin
Luca Cardelli
notableWork CCS (Calculus of Communicating Systems)
surface form: A Calculus of Communicating Systems

Communication and Concurrency
The Definition of Standard ML
placeOfBirth Yealmpton, Devon, England
placeOfDeath Cambridge, England
positionHeld Professor of Computer Science at the University of Cambridge
Professor of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh

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Description of subject: Robin Milner was a pioneering British computer scientist known for his foundational work in programming language theory, type systems, and process calculi, including the development of ML and the π-calculus.

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Milner Award and Lecture namedAfter Robin Milner
ML designedBy Robin Milner
Milner hasNotableBearer Robin Milner
Standard ML designedBy Robin Milner
LCF theorem prover designedBy Robin Milner
π-calculus creator Robin Milner
CCS (Calculus of Communicating Systems) creator Robin Milner
subject surface form: CCS
CCS (Calculus of Communicating Systems) introducedBy Robin Milner
subject surface form: CCS
Christopher Strachey influenced Robin Milner
Arthur alsoKnownAs Robin Milner
subject surface form: Arthur John Robin Gorell Milner
Philip Wadler influencedBy Robin Milner