Robin Milner

Robin Milner was a pioneering computer scientist known for developing formal methods to understand and design complex software systems. He created processes and notations—like the Calculus of Communicating Systems—that help specify how different parts of a program interact and communicate. His work enables programmers to model, analyze, and verify systems’ behavior to ensure correctness, especially in concurrent or distributed environments. Milner's contributions have significantly advanced computer science, particularly in software engineering, formal verification, and programming language theory.