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ICFP 2020
Thu 20 - Fri 28 August 2020
Simon Peyton Jones

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Name:Simon Peyton Jones
Bio:

Simon Peyton Jones, MA, MBCS, CEng, graduated from Trinity College Cambridge in 1980. After two years in industry, he spent seven years as a lecturer at University College London, and nine years as a professor at Glasgow University, before moving to Microsoft Research (Cambridge) in 1998. His main research interest is in functional programming languages, their implementation, and their application. He has led a succession of research projects focused around the design and implementation of production-quality functional-language systems for both uniprocessors and parallel machines. He was a key contributor to the design of the now-standard functional language Haskell, and is the lead designer of the widely-used Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC). He has written two textbooks about the implementation of functional languages.

More generally, he is interested in language design, rich type systems, software component architectures, compiler technology, code generation, runtime systems, virtual machines, and garbage collection. He is particularly motivated by direct use of principled theory to practical language design and implementation – that’s one reason he loves functional programming so much.

Affiliation:Microsoft, UK

Contributions

ICFP 2020 SIGPLAN CARES
Elastic Sheet-Defined Functions: Generalising Spreadsheet Functions to Variable-Size Input Arrays
SIGPLAN CARES
Lower Your Guards: A Compositional Pattern-Match Coverage Checker
A Quick Look at Impredicativity
Kinds are Calling Conventions
PLMW @ ICFP 2020 Panel discussion: Making a career in PL (even in uncertain times)
Haskell 2020 Committee Member in Program Committee within the Haskell 2020-track
HIW 2020 GHC Status Update
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