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# Dana Scott

Researcher

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Dana Scott is a researcher, best known for *Continuous lattices*.

## Quick Facts About Dana Scott

Profession Researcher

Notable works Continuous lattices

## About Dana Scott

Dana Stewart Scott is an American logician who is the Hillman University Professor emeritus of Computer Science, Philosophy, and Mathematical Logic at Carnegie Mellon University. He is now retired and lives in Berkeley, California. He and Michael O. Rabin won the 1976 ACM Turing Award for their work on automata theory, 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.

##  Quotes by Dana Scott

> [Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-scott/learn-as-much-as-you-can-while-you-are-young-since-life-becomes-too/)

Dana Scott

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> [When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dana-scott/when-you-speak-a-new-language-you-must-see-if-you-can-translate-all/)

Dana Scott

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