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]

J. Roger Hindley
Born1939 (1939)
Alma materQueen's University Belfast
Known forHindley–Milner type inference algorithm
Scientific career
FieldsLogic, Type theory
InstitutionsSwansea University
Doctoral advisorRonald Harrop

Education edit

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

He went on to receive a Ph.D. in 1964 from the 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.

He taught at Penn State University (1964–1966), Bristol University (1966–1968), and has been at Swansea University since 1968.

Selected publications edit

  • 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.

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