Carolyn Talcott

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]

Carolyn Talcott
Carolyn Talcott in 2004
Born (1941-06-14) June 14, 1941[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/

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]

gollark: I'm not really that good *either*, but I can look for... obvious issues of some sort.
gollark: I guess so.
gollark: Kind of.
gollark: Simply block SolarFlame5.
gollark: How's that for punctuation?

References

  1. "Carolyn Talcott Curriculum Vita". Stanford University. Retrieved 2012-10-14.
  2. Carolyn Talcott at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. "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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