Simon Thompson (professor)
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Simon Thompson is a research computer scientist, author, and an emeritus professor of the University of Kent, specializing in logic and computation.[1] His research into functional programming covers software verification and validation, programming tool-building, and software testing for the functional programming languages Erlang,[2] Haskell,[3][4] and OCaml.[5][6][7] He is the author of books on data type theory, Miranda, Haskell, and Erlang, and runs a massive open online course about Erlang for FutureLearn.
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Simon Thompson | |
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Born | |
Education | D.Phil., University of Oxford, 1984 |
Known for | Functional programming research,
Cardano domain-specific languages: Marlowe |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computer science |
Institutions | University of Kent Input Output Global |
Thesis | Recursion theories on the continuous functionals (1984) |
Doctoral advisor | Robin Oliver Gandy |
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