Olivier Danvy
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Olivier Danvy | |
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 Danvy in 2005 | |
| 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, National University of Singapore |
| Doctoral advisor | Bernard Robinet & Emmanuel Saint-James[1] |
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Olivier Danvy is a French computer scientist specializing in programming languages, partial evaluation, and continuations. He is a professor at the School of Computing at the National University of 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]
