Arto Salomaa#
| Email: | asalomaa 'at' utu.fi |
| Membership Number: | 1222 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FINLAND |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Username: | asalomaa |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006- : Professor Emeritus, University of Turku
- 1990-2005: Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, Univ. of Western Ontario
- 1981-82: Visiting Professor, Univ. of Waterloo, Canada
- 1975-1980 and 1990-1999: Academy Professor, Academy of Finland
- 1973-75: Visiting Professor, Univ. of Aarhus, Denmark
- 1966-68: Visiting Professor of CS, Univ. of Western Ontario
- 1966-1999: (with leaves of absence for the periods indicated above): Full Professor of Mathematics, Univ. of Turku
- 1960: Ph.D. Univ. of Turku, Finland
Fields of Scholarship
- formal languages and automata
- grammars and rewriting systems
- combinatorics on words
- cryptography
- authentication and secret sharing
- models of computation
- algorithmic information theory
- many-valued logic
- Boolean functions
- reaction systems
Honours and Awards
- 1989-99: 8 doctorates honoris causa, 2 in Finland and 6 abroad
- 2001: One of the Twelve Fellows in the Academy of Finland
- 1998: Nokia Special Award on merits in cryptography
- 2004: EATCS Award in recognition of outstanding scientific contributions to theoretical computer science
- 2011: "Arto Salomaa Auditorium" in Aarhus University (DAIMI), Denmark
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