Erik Meijer (computer scientist)
Erik Meijer (born 18 April 1963, Curaçao) is a Dutch computer scientist who is currently a software architect for Microsoft SQL Server, Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. At Microsoft he heads the Cloud Programmability Team[1]. Erik previously worked within Microsoft Research. Before that, he was an associate professor at Utrecht University. He received his Ph.D from Nijmegen University in 1992.
Meijer's research has included the areas of functional programming (particularly Haskell[2]) compiler implementation, parsing, programming language design, XML, and foreign function interfaces.
His work at Microsoft includes LINQ, Volta, and the Reactive programming framework Rx (Reactive Extensions) for .NET. He has been involved in over 150 software patent applications[3]
In 2009, he was the recipient of the Microsoft Outstanding Technical Leadership Award[4].
Meijer lived in the Netherlands Antilles until the age 14 when his father retired from his current job and the family moved back to the Netherlands.[5]
In 2011 Erik Meijer was appointed part-time professor of Cloud Computing at the Delft University of Technology.
[edit] References
- ^ http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Erik-Meijer-and-Team-Cloud-Data-Programmability-Connecting-the-Distributed-Dots
- ^ Haskell 98 Language and Libraries: The Revised Report; December 2002. http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/
- ^ http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=pts&hl=en&q=ininventor:erik+ininventor:meijer&num=10
- ^ http://www.microsoft.com/about/technicalrecognition/Erik-Meijer.aspx
- ^ http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Behind+The+Code/Erik-Meijer-Rebel-with-a-Cause-Democratizing-the-Machine/
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