Richard Bird (computer scientist)
Richard S. Bird.
Prof. Richard Simpson Bird (born 1943 in London) is a Supernumerary Fellow of Computation at Lincoln College, Oxford, England,[1] and former director of the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (now the Oxford University Department of Computer Science).[2]
Bird's research interests lie in algorithm design and functional programming, and he is known as a regular contributor to the Journal of Functional Programming and the author of Introduction to Functional Programming using Haskell and other books.[3] His name is associated with the Bird-Meertens Formalism, a calculus for deriving programs from specifications in a functional programming style.
Previously Bird was at the University of Reading.
References
- ↑ Fellows & Staff, Lincoln College, Oxford, UK.
- ↑ Richard Bird, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK.
- ↑ Publications, Richard Bird, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK.
External links
- Laboratory home page
- Richard Bird's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier
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