Carolyn Talcott

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Carolyn Talcott
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Carolyn Talcott in 2004
Born (1941-06-14) June 14, 1941 (age 80)[1]
Alma mater
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisThe Essence of RUM: A Theory of the Intensional and Extensional Aspects of LISP-Type Computation (1985)
Doctoral advisorSolomon Feferman[2]
Notable studentsNalini Venkatasubramanian[1]
Websitewww.jlambda.com/clt/

Carolyn Talcott (born June 14, 1941) is an American computer scientist known for work in formal reasoning, especially as it relates to computers, cryptanalysis and systems biology. She is currently the program director of the Symbolic Systems Biology group at SRI International.[3][4]

She is currently the co-editor-in-chief of Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation.[5]

Education[]

Talcott earned a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1985. Her dissertation, The Essence of RUM: A Theory of the Intensional and Extensional Aspects of LISP-Type Computation, was supervised by Solomon Feferman.[2]

Awards and memberships[]

Talcott was named an SRI Fellow in 2011.[3] She is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the Association for Symbolic Logic.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Carolyn Talcott Curriculum Vita". Stanford University. Retrieved 2012-10-14.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Carolyn Talcott at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Our People: Carolyn Talcott". SRI International. Retrieved 2012-10-14.
  4. ^ Sylvan, Pinsky (2011). "Honoring Carolyn Talcott's contributions to science". In Agha, Gul; Meseguer, Jose; Danvy, Olivier (eds.). Formal modeling. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. pp. 4–19. ISBN 978-3-642-24932-7.
  5. ^ "Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation". Springer Science+Business Media. Archived from the original on 2013-02-11. Retrieved 2012-10-14.

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