Honorary doctors 2018 - A developer of data processing
(WorldNews Finland)

Logician Aarne Ranta and his research group have developed a grammar-based programming language Faculty of Natural Sciences LUO Professor Aarne Ranta`s first contact with the University of Tampere already took place in the 1990s. Jyrki Nummenmaa, professor of computer science, remembers how Ranta, who worked at the University of Helsinki at the time, visited Tampere as a guest lecturer. Since then, the exchange of ideas between Ranta and the University has been continuous, and Nummenmaa typically meets Ranta every year. Ranta`s background is in logic while logic is an integral part of the subject of...