Arto Salomaa (born June 6, 1934) is a Finnish mathematician and computer scientist. His research career, which spans over forty years, is focused on formal languages and automata theory. A 2004 citation stated that "Arto is without doubt the founder of automata and formal language theory in Europe" Wikipedia
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