Henry Baker (computer scientist)
- Henry Baker (computer scientist)
Henry G. Baker (fl. late 20th century) is a computer scientist who has made contributions in garbage collection, functional programming languages, and linear logic. He was also one of the founders of Symbolics. In 2006 he was recognized as a Distinguished Scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery.
He is notable for his research in garbage collection, particularly Baker's real-time copying collector.
ee also
* Chicken Scheme compiler, inspired by an innovative design of Baker's.
Bibliography
*Carl Hewitt and Henry Baker Actors and Continuous Functionals Proceeding of IFIP Working Conference on Formal Description of Programming Concepts. August 1–5, 1977.
*cite journal | author= Carl Hewitt, Henry G. Baker |title=Laws for Communicating Parallel Processes | journal = IFIP Congress | pages=987–92 | year=1977 |id=ISSN|0001-0782 | url = http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/ShallowBinding.html
*Henry Baker. Actor Systems for Real-Time Computation MIT EECS Doctoral Dissertation. January 1978.
*cite journal | author= Henry G. Baker |title=Shallow binding in LISP 1.5 | journal = Communications of the ACM | pages=565–9 | volume =21 | issue = 7 | year=1978 |doi=10.1145/359545.359566
External links
* [http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/ Henry Baker's Archive of Research Papers] .
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