Olivier Danvy

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Olivier Danvy
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Olivier Danvy at the ICFP 2008 conference.
Nationality French
Alma mater Université Paris VI – Pierre et Marie Curie [1]
Known for Partial evaluation, continuations
Scientific career
Fields Computer science
InstitutionsBRICS, Aarhus University, Yale-NUS College
Doctoral advisor Bernard Robinet & Emmanuel Saint-James [1]
Website

Olivier Danvy is a French computer scientist specializing in programming languages, partial evaluation, and continuations. He is a professor at Yale-NUS College in Singapore.

Danvy received his PhD degree from the Université Paris VI in 1986. [1] He is notable for the number of scientific papers which acknowledge his help. Writing in Nature , editor Declan Butler reports on an analysis of acknowledgments on nearly one third of a million scientific papers and reports that Danvy is "the most thanked person in computer science". [2]

Danvy himself is quoted as being "stunned to find my name at the top of the list", ascribing his position to a "series of coincidences": he is multidisciplinary, is well travelled, is part of an international PhD programme, is a networker, and belongs to a university department with a long tradition of having many international visitors. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Olivier Danvy". The Mathematics Genealogy Project . Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  2. 1 2 Butler, D. (2004). "Frenchman is most thanked computer scientist". Nature. 432 (7019): 790. Bibcode:2004Natur.432..790B. doi: 10.1038/432790b . PMID   15602513.