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 |
| Institutions | BRICS, Aarhus University, Yale-NUS College |
| Doctoral advisor | Bernard Robinet & Emmanuel Saint-James[1] |
| Website | [1] |
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]
- ^ a b c "Olivier Danvy". The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
- ^ a b Butler, D. (2004). "Frenchman is most thanked computer scientist". Nature. 432 (7019): 790. Bibcode:2004Natur.432..790B. doi:10.1038/432790b. PMID 15602513.