J Roger Hindley

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Institutions Swansea University Academic advisor Ronald Harrop Fields Logic, Type theory		Name J. Hindley Doctoral advisor Ronald Harrop


Born 1939 ( 1939 ) Alma mater Queen's University Belfast Known for Hindley–Milner type inference algorithm Education Queen's University Belfast Books Introduction to combinators and [lambda]-calculus

J. Roger Hindley is a prominent British logician best known for the Hindley–Milner type inference algorithm. Since 1998, he has been an Honorary Research Fellow at Swansea University.

Education

Hindley graduated in 1960 from Queen's University Belfast, remaining to earn a M.Sc. in 1961.

He went on to receive a Ph.D. in 1964 from University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where his thesis supervisor was Ronald Harrop. Later, he returned to Queen's University for a D.Sc. in 1991.

Selected publications

Hindley, J. Roger (1969), "The principal type-scheme of an object in combinatory logic", Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, American Mathematical Society, 146: 29–60, JSTOR 1995158, MR 0253905, doi:10.2307/1995158 .

Hindley, J. Roger (2008), Basic simple type theory (2nd ed.), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521054225, retrieved June 22, 2009 .

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