Matthias Felleisen
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Matthias Felleisen is a computer science professor and an author of German background.
Felleisen is currently a Trustee Professor in the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. In the past he has taught at Rice University after receiving his PhD from Indiana University from Daniel P. Friedman.
Felleisen's interests include design of programming tools, web programming, and software contracts for software applications. Felleisen launched PLT Scheme and TeachScheme! to teach program-design principles to beginners and explore the use of Scheme to produce large systems.
Felleisen gave keynote at the 2004 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming and the 2001 Symposium on the Principles of Programming Languages. He coauthored How to Design Programs (MIT Press, 2001).
In 2006 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
[edit] Books
Felleisen is co-author of:
- How to Design Programs (MIT Press)
- A Little Java, A Few Patterns (MIT Press, 1998)
- The Little MLer (MIT Press, 1998)
- The Little Schemer (MIT Press, 4th Ed., 1996)
- The Seasoned Schemer (MIT Press, 1996)
