New Fellow of the Royal Society

2 June 2004

The Royal Society elected 44 new Fellows on 27 May, and Oxford fellow Professor Samson Abramsky was among them.

Professor Abramsky is the Christopher Strachey Professor of Computing in the Computing Laboratory. He is distinguished for seminal contributions to the mathematical foundations of computation. His outstanding achievement is his development of Game Semantics as a theory of computational processes which exposes the mathematical structure of the information flow between them.

Professor Abramsky joins over 70 Oxford academics who are Fellows of the Royal Society.

Lord May of Oxford, President of the Royal Society, said of the new Fellows: 'These outstanding individuals are very welcome additions to the Fellowship and Foreign Membership of the Royal Society. The achievements of these individuals demonstrate just how strong science is in the UK and Commonwealth. We hope they will contribute to the wide range of activities that the Royal Society undertakes, and provide leadership for the scientific community, both in the UK and abroad.'