Martin Richards (computer scientist)

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Martin Richards (born July 21, 1940 ) is a British computer scientist.

Richards studied mathematics and computer science at Cambridge University . For his dissertation in 1967 (The design and implementation of CPL-like programming languages) he developed the BCPL programming language. It was the starting point for the development of the B programming language by Ken Thompson (1969), which was then further developed into C by Dennis Ritchie .

Until his retirement in 2007, Richards was a Senior Lecturer in the Computer Laboratory at Cambridge University and a Fellow of St. John's College.

In 1979 he developed the portable operating system Tripos for minicomputers.

In 2003 he received the Computer Pioneer Award .

Fonts

  • The portability of the BCPL compiler , Software: Practice and Experience, Volume 1, 1971, pp. 135-146

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richards, AR Aylward, P. Bond, RD Evans, BJ Knight TRIPOS — a portable operating system for mini-computers , Software: Practice and Experience, Volume 9, 1979, p. 513
personal data
SURNAME Richards, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1940