Career Highlights for Dana S. Scott
Degrees:
B.A.: The
University of California, Berkeley, CA
June 1954
Ph.D.: Princeton University,
Princeton, NJ
June 1958
Dr.h.c: Rijksuniversiteit
Utrecht, The Netherlands
June 1986
Dr.h.c: Technische Hochschule
Darmstadt, Germany
May 1995
Dr.h.c: The University
of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
July 1995
Dr.h.c: The University
of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Feb. 2003
Academy/Association Fellowships:
Academia Europaea
American Association for the
Advancement of Science
American Academy of Arts and
Sciences
Association for Computing Machinery
British Academy
Finnish Academy of Sciences
and Letters
New York Academy of Sciences
U.S. National Academy of Sciences
Prizes:
LeRoy P. Steele Prize
American Mathematical Society,
1972
Turing Award (with Michael Rabin)
Association for Computing Machinery,
1976
Harold Pender Award
University of Pennsylvania,
1990
Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and
Philosophy
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences,
1997
Bolzano Medal for Merit in the
Mathematical Sciences
Czech Academy of Sciences,
2001
Academic Positions Held:
[01] Instructor, University of Chicago
[02] Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
[03] Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
[04] Associate Professor of Logic and Mathematics, Stanford University
[05] Professor of Logic and Mathematics, Stanford University
[06] Visiting Professor of Mathematics, University of Amsterdam
[07] Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics, Princeton University
[08] Professor of Mathematical Logic, Oxford University
[09] University Professor of Computer Science, Mathematical Logic,
and Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University
[10] Hillman Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
[11] Visiting O.Univ.Prof. Math., Universitaets Linz
[12] Professor Emeritus
1958-60
1960-62
1962-63
1963-67
1967-69
1968-69
1969-72
1972-81
1981-03
1989-03
1992-93
July 2003
Research Fellowhips:
Bell Telephone Fellow,
Princeton University
1956-57
Miller Institute Fellow, University
of California, Berkeley
1960-61
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
1963-65
Guggenheim Foundation Fellow
1978-79
Visiting Scientist, Xerox Palo Alto
Research Center
1978-79
Professorial Fellow, Merton College,
Oxford
1972-81
Visiting Professor, Institut Mittag-Leffler,
Sweden
2001
Humbolt Stiftung Senior Visiting Scientst,
Munich, Germany
2003
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Last revised: 24 May 2004