Biography:Paul Hudak

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Short description: American computer scientist
Paul Hudak
Paul Hudak in 2013.jpg
Paul Hudak in 2013
Born
Paul Raymond Hudak

(1952-07-15)July 15, 1952[1]
Baltimore, Maryland
DiedApril 29, 2015(2015-04-29) (aged 62)
New Haven, Connecticut
Resting placeGrove Street Cemetery[2]
CitizenshipUnited States
Education
Spouse(s)Cathy Van Dyke
Children
  • Jen Hudak
  • Cristina Hudak-Rosander
Awards
  • University of Utah Research Fellow (1981-82)[1]
  • IBM Faculty Development Award (1984)[1]
  • Presidential Young Investigator Award (1985)[3]
  • ACM Fellow (2003)[4]
  • ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential ICFP Paper Award (2007)[5]
  • ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award (2012)[6]
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
Institutions
ThesisObject and Task Reclamation in Distributed Applicative Processing Systems (1982)
Doctoral advisorRobert M. Keller[7]
Doctoral students
Other notable studentsMartin Odersky[1]
Websiteweb.archive.org/web/20140722064822/http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/people/paul-hudak/

Paul Raymond Hudak (July 15, 1952 – April 29, 2015) was an American musician and professor of computer science at Yale University who was best known for his involvement in the design of the programming language Haskell, and for several textbooks on Haskell and computer music. He was a chair of the department, and was also master of Saybrook College. He died on April 29, 2015, of leukemia.[2][8]

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