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Arto Salomaa#

Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Arto Salomaa
Arto Salomaa is Professor Emeritus at the University of Turku.

Present and Previous Positions

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  • 2009- POSITION 1
  • 1998-2008 POSITION 2
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  • 2006- : Professor Emeritus, University of Turku Turku
  • 1990-2005: Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, Univ. of Western Ontario
  • 1992: Member of Academia Europaea
  • 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
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  • private law
  • international law
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  • 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
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  • Member of Academia Europaea (1999)
  • Award of Excellence (2001)
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  • 1989-2013: 9 doctorates honoris causa, 2 in Finland and 7 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
  • 2014: Award of ETH Zuerich for merits in teaching of computer science
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