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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