Arto Salomaa
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Arto Kustaa Salomaa (born 6 June 1934) is a
Early life and education
Salomaa was born in
Career
In 1965, Salomaa became a professor of mathematics at the University of Turku, a position he retired from in 1999. He also spent two years in the late 1960s at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada, and two years in the 1970s at Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark.[1][3]
Salomaa was president of the
Publications
Salomaa has authored or co-authored 46 textbooks, including
Salomaa has also published over 400 articles in scientific journals during his professional career. He has authored also non-scientific articles such as "What computer scientists should know about sauna".[6] After his retirement, Arto Salomaa has published almost another 100 scientific articles.
Awards and recognition
Salomaa has been awarded the title of
Personal life
Salomaa married in 1959.[11] He has two children, Kirsti and Kai,[11] the latter of whom is a professor of Computer Science at Queen's University at Kingston and also works in the field of formal languages and automata theory.[12]
References
- ^ .
- Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. 84: 12–15.
- Springer, pp. 253–273.
- ^ Brauer, Ute; Brauer, Wilfried (1997). "Silver Jubilee of EATCS". EATCS. Archived from the original on December 12, 2011. Retrieved November 24, 2013.
- JSTOR 40180402.
- ^ Salomaa, A. (1981). "What computer scientists should know about sauna". Bulletin of the European Association of Theoretical Computer Science. 15: 8–21.
- ^ "Finnish Academicians of Science — Academy of Finland". Archived from the original on 2019-03-24. Retrieved 2018-07-07.
- ^ Academy of Finland, "Academicians | Academy of Finland". Archived from the original on 2014-03-29. Retrieved 2014-06-02..
- ^ a b van Leeuwen, Jan (2004), "The distinguished achievement award: EATCS Award 2004", Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science, 84: 10–11
- ^ "Arto Salomaa - Computer Science - Western University". Computer Science Department, University of Western Ontario. Archived from the original on 2018-07-08. Retrieved 2018-07-07..
- ^ a b Salomaa, Arto. "Curriculum Vitae". Retrieved 2018-07-04..
- ^ "Kai T. Salomaa". Queen's University. Archived from the original on April 21, 2014. Retrieved April 21, 2014.
External links
- Arto Salomaa at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Arto Salomaa home page
- Arto Salomaa publications indexed by Microsoft Academic