Christopher Strachey | |
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 Early computer printout of Christopher Strachey in the Bodleian Library, Oxford | |
| Born | 16 November 1916 Hampstead, England |
| Died | 18 May 1975 (aged 58) Oxford, England |
| Citizenship | British |
| Education | Gresham's School |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA) |
| Known for | CPL, denotational semantics, Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages, time-sharing |
| Parent(s) | Oliver Strachey Ray Costelloe |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer Science |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge, University of Oxford St Edmund's School, Canterbury Harrow School |
| Doctoral students | Peter Mosses David Turner |
Christopher S. Strachey (/ˈstreɪtʃi/; 16 November 1916 – 18 May 1975) was a British computer scientist.[1][2][3] He was one of the founders of denotational semantics, and a pioneer in programming language design and computer time-sharing.[4] He has also been credited as possibly being the first developer of a video game[5] and for coining terms such as polymorphism and referential transparency that are still widely used by developers today.[6] He was a member of the Strachey family, prominent in government, arts, administration, and academia.
- ^ Christopher Strachey: British computer scientist, Encyclopædia Britannica.
- ^ Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Christopher Strachey (1916–1975), The National Archives, United Kingdom.
- ^ Gordon, M.J.C., Christopher Strachey: Recollections of His Influence, Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation, 13(1–2):65–67, April 2000. ISSN 1388-3690. (PostScript version Archived 13 March 2017 at the Wayback Machine.)
- ^ F. J. Corbató, et al., The Compatible Time-Sharing System A Programmer's Guide (MIT Press, 1963) ISBN 978-0-262-03008-3. "the first paper on time-shared computers by C. Strachey at the June 1959 UNESCO Information Processing conference"
- ^ Brown, Stuart (4 October 2019). "The First Video Game". YouTube. Archived from the original on 4 October 2019. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
- ^ Strachey, Christopher (1967). Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages (Technical report). Lecture notes for the International Summer School in Computer Programming at Copenhagen.