Richard Bird (computer scientist)

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Richard S. Bird

Prof. Richard S. Bird (born 1943, London) is a Fellow of Computation at Lincoln College, Oxford, England [1], and former director of Oxford University Computing Laboratory [2].

Bird's research interests lie in algorithm design and functional programming, and he is renowned 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.

Previously Bird was at the University of Reading.

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