Citizenship British Name Simon Jones | Role Computer scientist | |
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Born 18 January 1958 (age 66)
South Africa ( 1958-01-18 ) Fields Computer science
Functional programming Institutions University College London
University of Glasgow
University of Cambridge
Microsoft Research
Computing at School Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge Doctoral students Maximilian Bolingbroke
Andrew Gill
Sigbjorn Finne
Laszlo Nemeth
Paul Roe Notable awards FACM (2004)
MAE (2011)
SIGPLAN Award (2011) Education Trinity College, Cambridge Books Implementing Functional Languages: A Tutorial, The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages Similar People Philip Wadler, Paul Hudak, Douglas Crockford, Brian Kernighan, Jon Bentley | ||
Known for Glasgow Haskell Compiler | ||
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Simon Peyton Jones FRS (born 18 January 1958) is a British computer scientist who researches the implementation and applications of functional programming languages, particularly lazy functional programming. He is an honorary Professor of Computer Science at the University of Glasgow and co-supervises PhD students at the University of Cambridge.
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- Education
- Career and research
- Awards and honours
- References
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Education
Peyton Jones graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1980 and went on to complete the Cambridge Diploma in Computer Science.
Career and research
Peyton Jones worked in industry for two years before serving as a lecturer at University College London and, from 1990 to 1998, as a professor at the University of Glasgow. Since 1998 he has worked as a researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England.
He is a major contributor to the design of the Haskell programming language, and a lead developer of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC). He is also co-creator of the C-- programming language, designed for intermediate program representation between the language-specific front-end of a compiler and a general-purpose back-end code generator and optimiser. C-- is used in GHC.
He was also a major contributor to the 1999 book Cybernauts Awake, which explored the ethical and spiritual implications of the Internet.
Peyton Jones chairs the Computing At School (CAS) group, an organisation which aims to promote the teaching of computer science at school.
Awards and honours
In 2004 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery for contributions to functional programming languages. In 2011 he received membership in the Academia Europaea.
In 2011, he and Simon Marlow were awarded the SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award for their work on GHC.
In 2013, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016.