Paul Hudak
OccupationComputer scientist
Birth namePaul Raymond Hudak
Birth dateJuly 15, 1952[1]
Birth placeBaltimore, Maryland, United States
Death dateApril 29, 2015 (aged 62)
Death placeNew Haven, Connecticut
Resting placeGrove Street Cemetery[2]
FieldsComputer science
Workplaces
Education
Thesis urlhttp://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=910584
Thesis year1982
Doctoral advisorRobert M. Keller[3]
Doctoral students
Notable studentsMartin Odersky[1]
Known forco-designing the programming language Haskell[4]
Awards
Websiteweb.archive.org/web/20140722064822/http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/people/paul-hudak
SpouseCathy Van Dyke

Paul Raymond Hudak (July 15, 1952 – April 29, 2015) was an American musician and professor of computer science at Yale University who was best known for his involvement in the design of the programming language Haskell, and for several textbooks on Haskell and computer music. He was a chair of the department, and was also master of Saybrook College. He died on April 29, 2015, of leukemia.[2][9]

References

  1. ^ "Curriculum Vita: Paul R. Hudak". Yale University. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
  2. ^ "Paul Hudak Obituary". New Haven Register. May 1, 2015. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
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  4. ^ Hudak, Paul; Hughes, John; Peyton Jones, Simon; Wadler, Philip (2007). "A history of Haskell". Proceedings of the third ACM SIGPLAN conference on History of programming languages. ACM. pp. 12–1–12–55. doi:10.1145/1238844.1238856. ISBN 978-1-59593-766-7. S2CID 52847907. Archived from the original on 2016-03-21. Retrieved 2015-05-01.
  5. ^ "Presidential Young Investigator Award: Semantic Analysis in Support of Parallel Computation". National Science Foundation. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
  6. ^ "ACM Fellows: Paul Hudak, 2003". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
  7. ^ "ACM SIGPLAN: Most Influential ICFP Paper Award". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
  8. ^ "The SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
  9. ^ "In memoriam: Paul Hudak, computer scientist and Saybrook College master". Yale University. 2015-04-30. Retrieved 30 April 2015.