Martin Richards (computer scientist)

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Martin Richards
Born (1940-07-21) 21 July 1940 (age 83)
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
Thesis The design and implementation of CPL-like programming languages  (1967)
Doctoral advisorDavid Barron, David Park and Christopher Strachey
Doctoral studentsEben Upton[1]
Websitewww.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mr10

Martin Richards (born 21 July 1940) is a British computer scientist known for his development of the BCPL programming language[3] which is both part of early research into portable software, and the ancestor of the B programming language invented by Ken Thompson in early versions of Unix and which Dennis Ritchie in turn used as the basis of his widely used C programming language.

Education

Richards studied

University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
until his retirement in 2007.

Research

In addition to BCPL, Richards' work[6] includes the development of the TRIPOS[7] portable operating system.

He was awarded the IEEE Computer Society's Computer Pioneer Award in 2003 for "pioneering system software portability through the programming language BCPL".[8]

Richards is a fellow of St John's College at the University of Cambridge.

References

  1. ^ Upton, Eben (2006). Compiling with data dependence graphs (DPhil thesis). University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ Cf. British Library catalogue entry for BCPL, the language and its compiler, Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1979.
  3. doi:10.1002/spe.4380010204
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  4. ^ Martin Richards at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ^ Richards, Martin (1967). The design and implementation of CPL-like programming languages (DPhil thesis). University of Cambridge.
  6. ^ Martin Richards at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
  7. doi:10.1002/spe.4380090702
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  8. ^ "Martin Richards". IEEE Computer Society. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
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