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Name
  
Henry Baker

Role
  
Computer scientist

Doctoral advisor
  

Henry Baker (computer scientist) WN henry baker computer scientist

Thesis
  
Actor systems for real-time computation (1978)

Alma mater
  
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Henry Givens Baker Jr. is an American computer scientist who has made contributions in garbage collection, functional programming languages, and linear logic. He was also one of the founders of Symbolics, a company that designed and manufactured a line of Lisp machines. 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, and on the Actor model.

Baker received his B.Sc. (1969), S.M. (1973), E.E. (1973), and Ph.D. (1978) degrees at M.I.T.

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