Simon Peyton Jones

Simon Peyton Jones (2016)

Simon Peyton Jones (born January 18, 1958 in South Africa ) is a British computer scientist. He is one of the designers of the Haskell programming language , honorary professor at Glasgow University and developer of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler ( GHC ).

Life

In 1980 Peyton Jones graduated from Trinity College , Cambridge . After two years in industry, he worked as a lecturer at University College London and then as an honorary professor at Glasgow University. In 1987, he and other researchers began working on a project that resulted in the development of the Haskell programming language . He has been with Microsoft Research in Cambridge since 1998 and has been an elected Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery ( ACM ) since 2004 . He has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2011 . In 2016 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 2010 he received the Programming Languages ​​Software Award with Simon Marlow .

Works

• Simon Peyton Jones: Beautiful Concurrency . In: Andy Oram, Greg Wilson (Eds.): Beautiful Code . O'Reilly, 2007, ISBN 978-0-596-51004-6 , pp. 385-406 .

Web links

• Website (English)
• Simon Peyton Jones in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Simon Peyton Jones: brief biography. Retrieved October 26, 2009 . 
2. ^ Simon Peyton-Jones - Microsoft Research. Retrieved October 26, 2009 . 
3. ^ ^{A b} Peter Seibel: Coders at Work: Simon Peyton Jones. Retrieved October 26, 2009 . 
4. ↑ Peter Seibel: Coders at Work: Major programmers and their success stories . mitp, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8266-9103-4 , chapter 7: Simon Peyton Jones , p. 225–264 (English: Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming . 2009. Translated by Reinhard Engel).
5. ↑ Jessica Watkins: Simon Peyton Jones elected Fellow of the Royal Society. Microsoft, May 2, 2016, accessed May 2, 2016 .