Martin Richards (computer scientist)
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Martin Richards | |
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| Born | 21 July 1940[1] |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Known for | Basic Combined Programming Language |
| Awards | IEEE Computer Pioneer Award (2003) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Programming languages |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory |
| Thesis | The design and implementation of CPL-like programming languages (1967) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Barron, David Park and Christopher Strachey |
| Doctoral students | Eben Upton[2] Martin Vechev |
| Website | www |
Martin Richards (born 21 July 1940) is a British computer scientist known for his development of the BCPL programming language[3] which is both part of early research into portable software, and the ancestor of the B programming language invented by Ken Thompson in early versions of Unix and which Dennis Ritchie in turn used as the basis of his widely used C programming language.
