Background
Salomaa was born in Turku, Finland on June 6, 1934.
mathematician computer scientist
Salomaa was born in Turku, Finland on June 6, 1934.
He earned a Bachelor"s degree from University of Turku in 1954 and a Doctor of Philosophy from the same university in 1960.
His research career, which spans over forty years, is focused on formal languages and automata theory. Salomaa"s father was a professor of philosophy at the University of Turku. Salomaa was introduced to the theory of automata and formal languages during seminars at Berkeley given by John Myhill in 1957.
In 1965, Salomaa became a professor of mathematics at the University of Turku, a position he retired from in 1999.
He also spent two years in the late 1960s at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada, and two years in the 1970s at the University of Aarhus in Aarhus, Denmark. Salomaa was president of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science from 1979 until 1985.
Academia Europaea.