Philip Wadler

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Full Name	Philip Wadler
Occupation	Computer Scientist
Date Of Birth	Apr 8, 1956(1956-04-08)
Age	68
Birthplace	United States of America
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	United States of America
Horoscope	Taurus

Philip Wadler Biography

Philip Wadler is one of the most popular and richest Computer Scientist who was born on April 8, 1956 in United States of America, United States of America, United Kingdom. Philip Lee Wadler (born April 8, 1956) is an American computer scientist known for his contributions to programming language design and type theory. In particular, he has contributed to the theory behind functional programming and the use of monads in functional programming, the design of the purely functional language Haskell, and the XQuery declarative query language. In 1984, he created the Orwell programming language. Wadler was involved in adding generic types to Java 5.0. He is also author of the paper Theorems for free! that gave rise to much research on functional language optimization (see also Parametricity).

Wadler received the Most Influential POPL Paper Award in 2003 for the 1993 POPL Symposium paper Imperative Functional Programming, jointly with Simon Peyton Jones. In 2005, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2007, he was inducted as an ACM Fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Wadler was editor of the Journal of Functional Programming from 1990 to 2004. Wadler is currently working on a new functional language designed for writing web applications, called Links. He has supervised numerous doctoral students to completion.

Philip Wadler Net Worth

Philip Wadler is one of the richest Computer Scientist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Philip Wadler 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Wadler received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Stanford University in 1977, and a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1979. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in 1984. His thesis was entitled Listlessness is Better than Laziness and was supervised by Nico Habermann.

Wadler was a research fellow at the Programming Research Group (part of the Oxford University Computing Laboratory) and St Cross College, Oxford during 1983–87. He was progressively lecturer, reader, and professor at the University of Glasgow from 1987 to 1996. Wadler was a member of technical staff at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies (1996–99) and then at Avaya Labs (1999–2003). Since 2003, he has been professor of theoretical computer science in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.

Since 2003, Wadler has been a professor of theoretical computer science at the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh and is the chair of Theoretical Computer Science. He is also a member of the university’s Blockchain Technology Laboratory. He has a h-index of 70 with 24,447 citations at Google Scholar. As of December 2018 Wadler was area leader for programming languages at IOHK, a blockchain development firm.

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Top Facts about Philip Wadler

1. Philip Wadler is an American computer scientist and professor.
2. He co-designed the Haskell programming language.
3. Wadler has authored over 150 research papers.
4. He received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in 1984.
5. Wadler was awarded the ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award in 2017.
6. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and ACM.
7. Wadler has worked for Bell Labs, Xerox PARC, and Avaya Labs.
8. He has made significant contributions to functional programming theory and practice.
9. Wadler served as Chair of ACM SIGPLAN from 2000-2006.
10. He currently teaches at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.