Joseph Goguen, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Joseph Goguen

American computer scientist

Date of Birth: 28-Jun-1941

Date of Death: 03-Jul-2006

Profession: engineer, computer scientist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Joseph Amadee Goguen ( GOH-g?n; June 28, 1941 – July 3, 2006) was a US computer scientist.
He was professor of Computer Science at the University of California and University of Oxford and held research positions at IBM and SRI International. Goguen's work was one of the earliest approaches to the algebraic characterisation of abstract data types and he originated and helped develop the OBJ family of programming languages.
He was author of A Categorical Manifesto and founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Consciousness Studies.
His development of institution theory impacted the field of universal logic.
Standard implication in product fuzzy logic is often called "Goguen implication".
Goguen categories are named after him.