Biography:Conor McBride

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Conor McBride
Born (1973-02-18) 18 February 1973 (age 51)
Newtownards, Northern Ireland
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
Type theory
InstitutionsDurham University
Royal Holloway, University of London
University of Strathclyde
ThesisDependently Typed Functional Programs and their Proofs (1999)
Websitestrictlypositive.org

Conor McBride (born 18 February 1973) is a Reader in the department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Strathclyde.[1] In 1999, he completed a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Dependently Typed Functional Programs and their Proofs[2] at the University of Edinburgh for his work in type theory.[3] He formerly worked at Durham University and briefly at Royal Holloway, University of London before joining the academic staff at the University of Strathclyde.

He was involved with developing international standards in programming and informatics, as a member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) IFIP Working Group 2.1 on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi,[4] which specified, maintains, and supports the programming languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68.[5]

He favors and often uses the language Haskell.[6]

Research

His most notable research is in the field of type theory.[7] He cocreated the programming language Epigram with James McKinna.[8] Several of his articles, including the joint-written article defining the Epigram language, have been published in the Journal of Functional Programming.[9]

Selected bibliography

Video lectures

  • McBride, Conor (3 February 2011). Dependently Typed Programming: An Agda Introduction (first of 15 lectures) (video). Iain McGinniss.
  • McBride, Conor (10 September 2012). ICFP 2012 Monday keynote. Conor McBride: Agda-curious? (video). Malcolm Wallace.

References

  1. "Dr Conor McBride: Reader: Computer and Information Sciences". https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/mcbrideconordr/. 
  2. McBride, Conor (July 2000). Dependently Typed Functional Programs and their Proofs. University of Edinburgh. https://www.era.lib.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/374. Retrieved 15 January 2016. 
  3. McBride, Conor (1999). "Dependently Typed Functional Programs and their Proofs". University of Edinburgh. http://www.lfcs.inf.ed.ac.uk/reports/00/ECS-LFCS-00-419/ECS-LFCS-00-419.pdf. 
  4. Jeuring, Johan; Meertens, Lambert; Guttmann, Walter (2016-08-17). "Profile of IFIP Working Group 2.1". https://ifipwg21wiki.cs.kuleuven.be/IFIP21/Profile. 
  5. Swierstra, Doaitse; Gibbons, Jeremy; Meertens, Lambert (2011-03-02). "ScopeEtc: IFIP21: Foswiki". https://ifipwg21wiki.cs.kuleuven.be/IFIP21/ScopeEtc. 
  6. McBride, Conor. "Conor's Staring out the Window". University of Strathclyde. https://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/conor.mcbride/. 
  7. Altenkirch, Thorsten; McBride, Conor. "Towards Observational Type Theory". http://strictlypositive.org/ott.pdf. 
  8. McBride, Conor; McKinna, James (January 2004). "The view from the left". Journal of Functional Programming 14 (1): 69–111. doi:10.1017/s0956796803004829. 
  9. Cambridge Journals Online: Journal of Functional Programming, Conor McBride

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