Richard Bird (computer scientist)

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]

Emeritus Professor

Richard Simpson Bird

Ph.D.
Professor Richard S. Bird
Born1943 (age 76–77)
London, England
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
Known forAlgorithm design
Functional programming
Bird–Meertens formalism
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUniversity of Reading
University of Oxford
Websiteweb.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/richard.bird

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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