Robert Forbes McNaughton, Jr. (1924–2014) was an American mathematician, logician, and computer scientist with several key contributions in formal languages, grammars and rewriting systems, and word combinatorics.
[1] McNaughton was originally from Brooklyn, and earned a bachelor's degree from Columbia University.
[1] He completed his Ph.D. at Harvard University; his dissertation, On Establishing the Consistency of Systems, was supervised by Willard Van Orman Quine.
[2] He taught at the University of Pennsylvania and then at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
[1] He died in 2014 in Troy, New York.