Biography:Richard Bird (computer scientist)
Richard Simpson Bird | |
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Professor Richard S. Bird | |
Born | London, England |
Died | 4 April 2022 | (aged 79)
Known for | Algorithm design Functional programming Bird–Meertens formalism |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science |
Institutions | University of Reading University of Oxford |
Website | www |
Richard Simpson Bird (4 February 1943 – 4 April 2022)[1] was an English computer scientist.
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He was a Supernumerary Fellow of Computation at Lincoln College, University of Oxford, in Oxford England ,[2] and former director of the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (now the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford).[3] Formerly, Bird was at the University of Reading.
Research interests
Bird's research interests lay in algorithm design and functional programming, and he was known as a regular contributor to the Journal of Functional Programming, and as author of several books promoting use of the programming language Haskell, including Introduction to Functional Programming using Haskell,[4] Thinking Functionally with Haskell,[5] Algorithm Design with Haskell co-authored with Jeremy Gibbons,[6] and other books on related topics.[7][8] His name is associated with the Bird–Meertens formalism, a calculus for deriving programs from specifications in a functional programming style.
Other organisational affilitations
He was a member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) IFIP Working Group 2.1 on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi,[9] which specified, supports, and maintains the programming languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68.[10]
References
- ↑ "Professor Richard Bird (4 February 1943 – 4 April 2022)". College News (Oxford University). 20 April 2022. https://lincoln.ox.ac.uk/news/professor-richard-bird.
- ↑ Fellows & Staff, Lincoln College, Oxford, UK.
- ↑ Richard Bird, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK.
- ↑ Bird, Richard (1998). Introduction to Functional Programming using Haskell (2nd ed.). Prentice Hall Press. ISBN 978-0-13-484346-9. http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/publications/books/functional/.
- ↑ Bird, Richard (2014). Thinking Functionally with Haskell. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-45264-0.
- ↑ Bird, Richard; Gibbons, Jeremy (July 2020). Algorithm Design with Haskell. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-49161-7.
- ↑ Bird, Richard (1972–2006). "Publications". United Kingdom. https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/richard.bird/publications.html.
- ↑ Bird, Richard (2021). "Richard Bird". United Kingdom. https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/richard.bird/.
- ↑ Jeuring, Johan; Meertens, Lambert; Guttmann, Walter (2016-08-17). "Profile of IFIP Working Group 2.1". https://ifipwg21wiki.cs.kuleuven.be/IFIP21/Profile.
- ↑ Swierstra, Doaitse; Gibbons, Jeremy; Meertens, Lambert (2011-03-02). "ScopeEtc: IFIP21: Foswiki". https://ifipwg21wiki.cs.kuleuven.be/IFIP21/ScopeEtc.
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