Richard Bird (computer scientist)
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Template:Main otherScript error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". Richard Simpson Bird (13 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]
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- 1943 births
- 2022 deaths
- English computer scientists
- English non-fiction writers
- Computer science writers
- Members of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
- Fellows of Lincoln College, Oxford
- Academics of the University of Reading
- Programming language researchers
- Formal methods people
- English male non-fiction writers
- People educated at St Olave's Grammar School