Simon Peyton Jones is a British computer scientist and the principal architect of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler, the leading implementation of the Haskell functional programming language. His research spans lazy evaluation and the practical implementation of functional programming, work carried out for many years at Microsoft Research Cambridge and later at Epic Games. He is also widely known in the United Kingdom for computing education outreach, including his role in shaping the national school computing curriculum.
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AwardFellow of the Royal Society 2 AwardProgramming Languages Achievement Award 2 AwardSIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award 2 AwardDistinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society 2 AwardProgramming Languages Software Award 2 Connections
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Simon Peyton Jones (born 18 January 1958) is a British computer scientist who researches the implementation and applications of functional programming languages, particularly lazy functional programming.
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