J. Roger Hindley

J. Roger Hindley
Born 1939 (1939)
Alma mater Queen's University Belfast
Known for Hindley–Milner type inference algorithm
Scientific career
Fields Logic, Type theory
Institutions Swansea University
Doctoral advisor Ronald Harrop

J. Roger Hindley is a prominent British logician best known for the Hindley–Milner type inference algorithm. Since 1998, he has been an Honorary Research Fellow at Swansea University.[1]

Education

Hindley graduated in 1960 from Queen's University Belfast, remaining to earn a M.Sc. in 1961.

He went on to receive a Ph.D. in 1964 from University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where his thesis supervisor was Ronald Harrop. Later, he returned to Queen's University for a D.Sc. in 1991.

Selected publications

  • Hindley, J. Roger (1969), "The principal type-scheme of an object in combinatory logic", Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, American Mathematical Society, 146: 29–60, doi:10.2307/1995158, JSTOR 1995158, MR 0253905 .
  • Hindley, J. Roger (2008), Basic simple type theory (2nd ed.), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521054225, retrieved June 22, 2009 .

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