Erik Meijer (computer scientist)

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Erik Meijer (2009)

Erik Meijer (born April 18, 1963 , Curaçao ) is a Dutch computer scientist and entrepreneur.

Life

Meijer lived in the Netherlands Antilles until he was fifteen when his father retired and the family returned to the Netherlands.

He did his Ph.D. in 1992. at Radboud University Nijmegen and was a professor at Utrecht University . Meijer's research encompassed areas of functional programming (especially Haskell ) compiler construction , parsing , programming language design , XML and foreign function interfaces .

From 2000 to the beginning of 2013 he was a software architect at Microsoft , where he led the cloud programmability team . His work at Microsoft included C # , Visual Basic , LINQ , Microsoft Live Labs Volta and the reactive programming framework (Reactive Extensions) for .NET . As a member of the C # team, he received the Microsoft Outstanding Technical Achievement Award in 2007 and the Microsoft Outstanding Technical Leadership Award in 2009 .

In 2011 he was given a part-time professorship in cloud programming at the Software Engineering Research Group at Delft University of Technology . Erik Meijer left Microsoft at the beginning of 2013 and founded Applied Duality Incorporated. He worked there on Hack for Facebook , the RxJava library for Netflix and Dart for Google . Since 2013 he has also been Honorary Professor of Programming Language Design at the School of Computer Science at Nottingham University .

In 2014 Erik Meijer was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukemia .

He teaches a Principles of Reactive Programming course at the MOOC company Coursera and an Introduction to Functional Programming course at edX .

He is also a member of the ACM Queue Editorial Board.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erik Meijer: Rebel with a Cause | Behind The Code | Channel 9 . Channel9.msdn.com. March 4, 2010. Retrieved October 17, 2013.
  2. ^ The Haskell 98 Language Report . Haskell.org. Retrieved February 19, 2015.
  3. ↑ Erik Meijer and Team: Cloud Data Programmability - Connecting the Distributed Dots | Going deep | Channel 9 . Channel9.msdn.com. January 22, 2010. Retrieved October 17, 2013.
  4. ^ Microsoft TCN - Awards and Recognitions . Microsoft.com. Retrieved October 17, 2013.
  5. ^ Microsoft TCN - Awards and Recognitions . Microsoft.com. Retrieved February 19, 2015.
  6. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20111221231640/http://home.tudelft.nl/en/current/latest-news/article/detail/microsoft-software-ontwikkelaar-erik-meijer-wordt-deeltijdhoogleraar /
  7. ↑ Erik Meijer: One Hacker Way at the GOTO conference 2015
  8. ↑ Free Online Courses From Top Universities . Coursera. Retrieved February 19, 2015.
  9. ↑ Introduction to Functional Programming . edX. Retrieved September 14, 2015.
  10. ^ Editorial Board - ACM Queue . Queue.acm.org. Retrieved October 17, 2013.

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personal data
SURNAME Meijer, Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch computer scientist and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Curacao