Richard Bird (computer scientist)
- Richard Bird (computer scientist)
Prof. Richard S. Bird (born 1943, London) is a Fellow of Computation at Lincoln College, Oxford, England [http://www.lincoln.ox.ac.uk/content/view/70/40/] , and former director of Oxford University Computing Laboratory [http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/people/richard.bird.html] .
Bird's research interests lie in algorithm design and functional programming, and he is renowned as a regular contributor to the "Journal of Functional Programming" and the author of "Introduction to Functional Programming using Haskell" and other books [http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/richard.bird/publications.html] . 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.
External links
* [http://www.lincoln.ox.ac.uk/fellows/bird/ College home page]
* [http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/richard.bird/ Laboratory home page]
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