Henry Baker (computer scientist)

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Henry Baker
Alma mater
MIT
Scientific career
ThesisActor systems for real-time computation (1978)
Doctoral advisorCarl Hewitt
Websitehome.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/

Henry Givens Baker Jr. is an American computer scientist who has made contributions in

functional programming languages, and linear logic. He was one of the founders of Symbolics, a company that designed and manufactured a line of Lisp machines. 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, and on the Actor model.

Baker received his B.Sc. (1969), S.M. (1973), E.E. (1973), and Ph.D. (1978) degrees at

M.I.T.

The

Chicken Scheme compiler was inspired by an innovative design of Baker's.[1]

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