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