Professor William D. Clinger | |
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| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | PhD, MIT |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Northeastern University |
| Doctoral advisor | Carl Hewitt |
William D. Clinger is an associate professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University.[1] He is known for his work on higher-order and functional programming languages, and for extensive contributions in helping create and implement international technical standards for the programming language Scheme via the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Clinger was an editor of the second through fifth Revised Reports on Scheme (R2RS – R5RS),[2] and an invited speaker on Scheme at the Lisp50 conference celebrating the 50th birthday of the language Lisp.[3] He has been on the faculty at Northeastern University since 1994.[4]