Peter Landin

Peter Landin

Country

Great Britain

Birth - Death

1930 - 2009

Occupation

Scientist

Description

Computer scientist, with a focus on programming languages and active in the definition of the ALGOL programming language. Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Computation at Queen Mary, University of London. Several honours and prizes were created in his name. LGBTQ activist. Bisexual.

Further Reading/Research

• http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/sep/22/peter-landin-obituary
• http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/staffpages/tonyclark/Papers/computational_stories.pdf
• http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1873363

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