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Simon Peyton Jones at Microsoft Research

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About

I'm a researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England. I started here in Sept 1998. I'm also an Honorary Professor of the [Computing Science Department][93] at [Glasgow University][94], where I was a professor during 1990-1998.

I am married to Dorothy, a priest in the Church of England. We have six children.

I'm interested in the design, implementation, and application of lazy functional languages. In practical terms, that means I spend a most of my time on the design and implementation of [the language Haskell][95]. In particular, much of my work is focused around [the Glasgow Haskell Compiler][96], and its ramifications.

I am chair of [Computing at School][97], the group at the epicentre of the reform of the national curriculum for Computing in England.   Computer science is now a foundational subject, alongside maths and natural science, that every child learns from primary school onwards ([background here][98]).

Research skills

  • [How to write a great research paper][99]
  • [How to give a great research talk][100]
  • [How to write a great grant proposal][101]

Useful information and links

  • [The Computing at School Working Group][102]
  • A 2014 Microsoft [blog post about CAS and computing education][103]
  • [My Win32 cheat sheet][104]
  • My GPG key fingerprint is: CABA 2C32 0D13 B715 8611 0390 6B2B 1815 5F25 C538

Haskell stuff

  • The [International Conference on Functional Programming][105]
  • [The Revised Haskell 98 Report][106]
  • [The main Haskell home page][95]
  • [The Glasgow Haskell Compiler][107]
  • Johan Tibell’s [State of Haskell 2010 ][108]questionnaire results
  • [John Hughes’s links to tutorials on functional programming][109]
  • [A History of Haskell: being lazy with class][110].
  • [Tackling the awkward squad: monadic input/output, concurrency, exceptions, and foreign-language calls in Haskell][111].
  • [Type classes: exploring the design space][112]
  • [Wearing the hair shirt: a retrospective on Haskell][113]. Slides of my invited talk at POPL’03
  • [A taste of Haskell][114]. Video and slides from my tutorial on Haskell at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, 2007
  • [The main Haskell mailing list][115]

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I use LinkedIn for professional networking, but I restrict my connections to people who I know personally, or with whom I have had some meaningful two-way professional interaction; that is, not simply people with whom I share a professional interest.

I use Facebook for non-work networking, but only for people who my family knows too.

I do have a Twitter account, for some reason, but I have yet to find something significant enough to say that it’s worth tweeting.

In all three cases my actual use is minimal, so don’t hold your breath.

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Awards & Honours

Fellowships

  • [Fellow of the Royal Society][150] (2016)
  • [Distinguished Fellow of the BCS][151] (2017)
  • [Fellow of the ACM][152] (2004)

 

I am honoured to have received the following honorary degrees:

  • [Honorary DSc from the University of Glasgow][153] (2013); Muffy Calder’s [oration][154]
  • [Honorary DEd from the University of Bath][155] (2017); Chris Budd’s [oration][155]; [video][156]
  • [Honorary DSc from the University of Kent, Canterbury][157] (2017)
  • [Honorary DSc from the Queen Mary University of London][158] (2017)

 

Awards

  • The 2016 [ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award][159]
  • The 2016 [ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential ICFP Paper Award][160] (shared with [Dimitrios Vytiniotis][161], Stephanie Weirich, and Geoffrey Washburn)
  • The 2015 [ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential ICFP Paper Award][160] (shared with Manuel M. T. Chakravarty and Gabriele Keller)
  • The 2014 [ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award][162]
  • The 2014 [ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential ICFP Paper Award][160] (shared with Ralf Lämmel)
  • The 2011 [ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award][163] (shared with Simon Marlow)
  • The 2003 [ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential POPL Paper Award][164] (shared with Philip Wadler)

Biography

A brief biography, suitable for seminar announcements and suchlike

Simon Peyton Jones, FRS, graduated from Trinity College Cambridge in 1980. After two years in industry, he spent seven years as a lecturer at University College London, and nine years as a professor at Glasgow University, before moving to Microsoft Research (Cambridge) in 1998.

Simon’s main research interest is in functional programming languages, their implementation, and their application. He was a key contributor to the design of the now-standard functional language Haskell, and is the lead designer of the widely-used [Glasgow Haskell Compiler][96] (GHC). He has written two textbooks about the implementation of functional languages.  He is particularly motivated by direct application of principled theory to practical language design and implementation — that is one reason he loves functional programming so much.

Simon is chair of [Computing at School][102], the grass-roots organisation that was at the epicentre of the 2014 reform of the English computing curriculum.

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