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Also Known As Arthur John Robin Gorell Milner
Born January 13, 1934 • Devon • England
Died March 20, 2010 (aged 76) • Cambridge • England
Awards And Honors Turing Award (1991)
Subjects Of Study artificial intelligence programming language • compiler • computer programming language • concurrency • ML • computable function

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