Roland Carl Backhouse
Roland Carl Backhouse (born 18 August 1948) is a British computer scientist and mathematician who is currently Professor of Computing Science at the University of Nottingham.[1]
Early life and education
Backhouse was born and raised on one of the poorest housing estates in England, the Thorntree district of Middlesbrough, an industrial town in the north-east of England. In 1959 he won a place at Acklam Hall Grammar School (a school that has since lost its existence under an updated education scheme) before going on to Churchill College, Cambridge, in 1966. His doctorate was completed under the supervision of Jim Cunningham at Imperial College London.
Career
Backhouse's career has included Royal Aircraft Establishment (1969–1970), Heriot-Watt University (1973–1982), University of Essex (1982–1986). He was formerly Professor of Computer Science at the University of Groningen (1986–90) and Eindhoven University of Technology (1990–1999) in the Netherlands, prior to his current position at the University of Nottingham.
Personal life
Backhouse is married to Hilary (née Mitchell) and they have three sons, Kevin, Andrew and David.
Academic interests
His research interests lie in the mathematics of program construction and algorithmic problem solving. Together with Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut (1953—1994), he initiated the biennial series of conferences on the Mathematics of Program Construction, the first of which was held in 1989.
References
Publications
Books
- Backhouse, Roland (1979). Syntax of programming languages. Prentice-Hall International series in computer science. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall International. ISBN 978-0138799991.
- Backhouse, Roland (1986). Program construction and verification. Englewood Cliffs N.J.: Prentice-Hall International. ISBN 9780137291533.
- Backhouse, Roland (2003). Program construction: calculating implementations from specifications. Chichester: Wiley. ISBN 9780470848821.
- Backhouse, Roland; Jeremy Gibbons, Ralph Hinze, Johan Jeuring (2007). Datatype-generic programming : international spring school, SSDGP 2006, Nottingham, UK April 24–27, 2006, revised lectures. International Spring School on Datatype-Generic Programming. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 9783540767855.
- Backhouse, Roland; Jeremy Gibbons (2003). Generic programming: advanced lectures [lectures presented at a Summer School on Generic Programming held at the University of Oxford in August 2002]. Summer School on Generic Programming. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 9783540201946.
- Backhouse, Roland; Roy L. Crole,Jeremy Gibbons (2002). Algebraic and coalgebraic methods in the mathematics of program construction : international summer school and workshop Oxford, UK, April 10–14, 2000, revised lectures. Berlin; New York: Springer. ISBN 9783540436133.
Selected papers
- "Regular algebra applied to path-finding problems". Journal of the institute of mathematics and its applications 15 (2): 161–186. 1975
- "Generic programming - An introduction [Conference Information: 3rd International School on Advanced Functional Programming (AFP 98),September 12–19, 1998 Braga Portugal]". Advanced functional programming 1608: 28–115. 1999
- "A calculational approach to mathematical induction". Theoretical computer science 179 (1-2): 103–135. June 1997
- "Galois connections and fixed point calculus [Conference Information: International Summer School and Workshop on Algebraic and Coalgebraic Methods in the Mathematics of Program Construction, Date: April 10–14, 2000 Univ Oxford Oxford England]". Algebraic and Coalgebraic Methods in the Mathematics of Program Construction 2297: 89–148. 2002
- "Reductivity [Conference Information: 3rd International Conference on the Mathematics of Program Construction, Date: JUL 17-21, 1995 Kloster Irsee Germany]". Science of Computer Programming 26 (1-3): 217–236. 1996
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