Luca Cardelli | |
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Born | Luca Andrea Cardelli Montecatini Terme, Italy |
Alma mater | University of Pisa University of Edinburgh (PhD) |
Known for | Theory of Objects [1] |
Awards | Dahl–Nygaard Prize (2007) [2] ACM Fellow (2005) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Theory of programming languages Process algebra Systems biology Molecular Programming [3] |
Institutions | Bell Labs Microsoft Research Digital Equipment Corporation University of Edinburgh University of Oxford [4] |
Thesis | An algebraic approach to hardware description and verification (1982) |
Doctoral advisor | Gordon Plotkin [5] |
Website | lucacardelli |
Luca Andrea Cardelli FRS is an Italian computer scientist who is a research professor at the University of Oxford, UK. [6] [3] [7] [8] Cardelli is well known for his research in type theory and operational semantics. [9] [10] 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#. [1] [11] [12] [13] [14]
He was born in Montecatini Terme, Italy. He attended the University of Pisa [7] before receiving his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1982 [15] for research supervised by Gordon Plotkin. [5]
Before joining the University of Oxford in 2014, and Microsoft Research in Cambridge, [7] UK in 1997, he worked for Bell Labs and Digital Equipment Corporation, [7] and contributed to Unix software including vismon. [16]
In 2004 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2005. [7] In 2007, Cardelli was awarded the Senior AITO Dahl–Nygaard Prize named for Ole-Johan Dahl and Kristen Nygaard. [17]
Cardelli created and published the Dijkstra font, a computer typeface mimicking Edsger W. Dijkstra's handwriting, in the late 1980s while working at DEC. [18] [19]