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Samson Abramsky
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- King's College, Cambridge (BA, MA, Diploma)
- Queen Mary University of London (PhD){edih}| thesis_title = Domain Theory and the Logic of Observable Properties| thesis_url =weblink| thesis_year = 1987| doctoral_advisor = Richard Bornat| academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced =
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- Lovelace Medal (2013)
- ACM Fellow (2014) WEB,weblink Mr Samson Abramsky, awards.acm.org,
Education
Abramsky was educated at Hasmonean Grammar School for Boys, Hendon and at King's College, Cambridge (BA 1975, MA Philosophy 1979, Diploma in Computer Science) and Queen Mary, University of London (PhD Computer Science 1988, supervised by Richard Bornat).{{MathGenealogy|67094}}Career and research
Since 2021, Abramsky has been Professor of Computer Science at University College London. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society since 2004. His research includes the development of game semantics, domain theory in logical form, and categorical quantum mechanics.His earlier positions include:- Programmer, GEC Computers Limited, 1976â1978
- Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Statistics, QMUL, 1980â1983
- Lecturer, 1983â1988, reader, 1988â1990, professor, 1990â1995, Department of Computing, Imperial College London
- Professor of Theoretical Computer Science, University of Edinburgh, 1996â2000
- Christopher Strachey Professor of Computing, University of Oxford, 2000â2021
Selected publications
Samson Abramsky co-edited 6 Volumes Handbook of Logic in Computer Science with Dov Gabbay and Tom Maibaum:- 1992. Volume 1: Background: Mathematical Structures.
- 1992. Volume 2: Background: Computational Structures.
- 1995. Volume 3: Semantic Structures.
- 1995. Volume 4: Semantic Modelling.
- 2001. Volume 5: Logic and Algebraic Methods.
- Volume 6: Logical methods in computer science.
- 1986. Strictness analysis for higher-order functions. (with GL Burn, C Hankin). Science of Computer Programming.
- 1990. The Lazy Lambda Calculus. Research Topics in Functional Programming.
- 1993. Computational Interpretations of Linear logic. in Theoretical Computer Science 111
- 1994. Domain Theory. (with A Jung). in Handbook of Logic in Computer Science 3.
- 1996. Interaction categories and the foundations of typed concurrent programming. (with S Gay and R Nagarajan). NATO ASI SERIES F COMPUTER AND SYSTEMS SCIENCES 152
- 1997. Specifying interaction categories. (with D PavloviÄ). Category Theory and Computer Science
- 2002. Geometry of interaction and linear combinatory algebras. (with E Haghverdi and P Scott). Mathematical Structures in Computer Science 12 (5)
- 2003. Sequentiality vs. concurrency in games and logic. Mathematical Structures in Computer Science 13 (4)
- 2010. Introduction to categories and categorical logic. (with N. Tzevelekos). In New Structures for Physics. Springer.
- 2012. Logical Bell Inequalities. (with Lucien Hardy). In Physical Review A. Vol. 85. No. ARTN 062114.
- 2013. Robust Constraint Satisfaction and Local Hidden Variables in Quantum Mechanics. (with G. Gottlob and P. Kolaitis). IJCAI.
Awards and honours
Abramsky is a Fellow of the Royal Society (2004), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2000),WEB,weblink Professor Samson Abramsky FRS FRSE, 2017-05-19, The Royal Society of Edinburgh, en-GB, 2019-01-27, and a Member of Academia Europaea (1993). He is a member of the editorial boards of the North Holland Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics, and of the Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science. He was general chair of LiCS 2000â2003, and is a member of the LiCS Organizing Committee.- He was elected Fellow of ACM (2014) For contributions to domains in logical form, game semantics, categorical quantum mechanics, and contextual semantics.
- He was awarded the BCS Lovelace Medal in 2013WEB,weblink BCS Academy of Computing &124; BCS, www.bcs.org,
- His paper "Domain theory in Logical Form" won the LiCS Test-of-Time award (a 20-year retrospective) for 1987. The award was presented at LiCS 2007.
- He was awarded an EPSRC Senior Research Fellowship on Foundational Structures and Methods for Quantum Informatics in 2007.
- Fellow of the Royal Society (2004)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2000)
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