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Richard Bird (computer scientist)

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Richard S. Bird.

Richard Simpson Bird (born 1943 in London) is a Supernumerary Fellow of Computation at Lincoln College, University of Oxford, in Oxford England,[1] and former director of the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (now the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford).[2]

Bird's research interests lie in algorithm design and functional programming, and he is known as a regular contributor to the Journal of Functional Programming and the author of Introduction to Functional Programming using Haskell and other books.[3] His name is associated with the Bird–Meertens formalism, a calculus for deriving programs from specifications in a functional programming style.

Formerly, Bird was at the University of Reading.

References

  1. ^ Fellows & Staff, Lincoln College, Oxford, UK.
  2. ^ Richard Bird, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK.
  3. ^ Publications, Richard Bird, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK.
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