Bert Halstead

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Bert Halstead is the chief architect at Curl, Inc., where he has worked for several years on the design and implementation of the Curl content language. Curl is a language that aims to ease the implementation of applications that would otherwise use Java or employ an Ajax paradigm.

After receiving his Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979, Halstead became a member of the institution's computer science faculty, where he co-authored Curl: A Content Language for the Web, a textbook that provides insight into computer architecture. He also developed the "futures" programming-language construct and implemented it in the parallel programming language known as Multilisp.

During his time as a research staff member at the Digital Equipment Corporation's Cambridge Research Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Halstead focused on tools to help programmers develop parallel programs and understand their behavior. He provided guidance to the project that led to High Performance Fortran, a widely known parallel programming language endorsed by an industry-wide forum.