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Luca Cardelli

born 1954

About this person

Wikipedia Summary

Luca Andrea Cardelli is an Italian computer scientist who is a research professor at the University of Oxford, UK. Cardelli is well known for his research in type theory and operational semantics. Among other contributions, in programming languages, he helped design the language Modula-3, implemented the first compiler for the (non-pure) functional language ML, defined the concept of typeful programming, and helped develop the experimental language Polyphonic C#.

Biographical & Professional Details

Date of birth
November 30, 1953
Montecatini Terme
Citizenship

Italy

Occupations & fields
computer scientistengineer
Awards & honours
Fellow of the Royal SocietyDahl–Nygaard PrizeProgramming Languages Achievement AwardTulip Award in DNA ComputingACM Fellow
Field and occupation
obor působnosti počítačové vědy
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