Dana Scott

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Dana Stewart Scott
Born	(1932-10-11) October 11, 1932 (age 91) Berkeley, California
Education	UC Berkeley (B.A., 1954) Princeton University (Ph.D., 1958)
Known for	Automata theory Cartesian monoid Logic of Computable Functions Semantics of programming languages Modal μ-calculus Nondeterministic finite automaton Scott domain Scott encoding Scott information system Scott topology Scott's trick Scott-Montague semantics Scott–Potter set theory Scott–Strachey semantics Rabin–Scott powerset construction
Awards	Leroy P. Steele Prize (1972) Turing Award (1976) Tarski Lectures (1989) Harold Pender Award (1990) Gödel Lecture (1991) Rolf Schock Prize (Logic and Philosophy) (1997)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science Mathematics Philosophy
Institutions	University of Chicago UC Berkeley Stanford Merton College, University of Oxford Carnegie Mellon University
Thesis	Convergent Sequences of Complete Theories (1958)
Doctoral advisor	Alonzo Church
Doctoral students	Jack Copeland Michael Fourman Kenneth Kunen Angus Macintyre Peter Mosses Ketan Mulmuley Marko Petkovšek Fred S. Roberts David Turner Martin Davies

Dana Stewart Scott (born October 11, 1932) is an American logician who is the emeritus Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy, and Mathematical Logic at Carnegie Mellon University; he is now retired and lives in Berkeley, California. His work on automata theory earned him the Turing Award in 1976, while his collaborative work with Christopher Strachey in the 1970s laid the foundations of modern approaches to the semantics of programming languages. He has also worked on modal logic, topology, and category theory.