Henry Baker (computer scientist)

Henry G. Baker (fl. late 20th century) is a computer scientist who has made contributions in garbage collection, functional programming languages, and linear logic. He was also one of the founders of Symbolics. In 2006 he was recognized as a Distinguished Scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery.

He is notable for his research in garbage collection, particularly Baker's real-time copying collector.

See also

• Chicken Scheme compiler, inspired by an innovative design of Baker's.

Bibliography

• Carl Hewitt and Henry Baker Actors and Continuous Functionals Proceeding of IFIP Working Conference on Formal Description of Programming Concepts. August 1–5, 1977.
• Carl Hewitt, Henry G. Baker (1977). "Laws for Communicating Parallel Processes". IFIP Congress: 987–92. ISSN 0001-0782. 
• Henry Baker. Actor Systems for Real-Time Computation MIT EECS Doctoral Dissertation. January 1978.
• Henry G. Baker (1978). "Shallow binding in LISP 1.5". Communications of the ACM 21 (7): 565–9. doi:10.1145/359545.359566. 

External links

• Henry Baker's Archive of Research Papers.

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