Education
École Polytechnique.
École Polytechnique.
He notably introduced Kahn process networks as a model for parallel processing and natural semantics for describing the operational semantics of programming languages. Gilles Kahn studied at the École polytechnique (X1964) and at Stanford. He was president and director-general of Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique from 2004 to 2006.
French Academy of Sciences]
He became a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1997.