Erik Meijer (computer scientist)
Erik Meijer (born 18 April 1963, Curaçao) is a Dutch computer scientist and entrepreneur. From 2000 to early 2013 he was a software architect for Microsoft where he headed the Cloud Programmability Team. [1] He then founded Applied Duality Inc.[2] in 2013. 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[3]) compiler implementation, parsing, programming language design, XML, and foreign function interfaces.
His work at Microsoft included C#, Visual Basic, LINQ, Volta, and the Reactive programming framework (Reactive Extensions) for .NET. He has been involved in over 300 software patent applications of which 101 have been granted.[citation needed]
In 2009, he was the recipient of the Microsoft Outstanding Technical Leadership Award[4] and in 2007 the Outstanding Technical Achievement Award as a member of the C# team.[5]
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.[6]
In 2011 Erik Meijer was appointed part-time professor of Cloud Programming within the Software Engineering Research Group at Delft University of Technology.[7] He is also member of the ACM Queue Editorial Board.[8]
References [edit]
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This article uses bare URLs for citations. (January 2013) |
- ^ http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Erik-Meijer-and-Team-Cloud-Data-Programmability-Connecting-the-Distributed-Dots
- ^ Applied Duality Inc. http://www.applied-duality.com/
- ^ Haskell 98 Language and Libraries: The Revised Report; December 2002. http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/
- ^ 2009 Outstanding Technical Leadership Awards. Microsoft, 2009.
- ^ http://www.microsoft.com/about/technicalrecognition/Visual-Team.aspx
- ^ http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Behind+The+Code/Erik-Meijer-Rebel-with-a-Cause-Democratizing-the-Machine/
- ^ http://home.tudelft.nl/en/current/latest-news/article/detail/microsoft-software-ontwikkelaar-erik-meijer-wordt-deeltijdhoogleraar/
- ^ http://queue.acm.org/editorialboardx.cfm
External links [edit]
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Erik Meijer (computer scientist) |
- (Dutch)"Erik Meijer: we leven in het stenen tijdperk". Video's - Tweakers. 2012-02-18. Retrieved 2013-03-28.
- (English)Erik Meijer's home page at Microsoft Research
- (English)List of Erik Meijer's publications available from DBLP.
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- 1963 births
- Living people
- Dutch computer scientists
- Functional programming
- Programming language researchers
- Radboud University Nijmegen alumni
- Utrecht University alumni
- Delft University of Technology faculty
- Microsoft employees
- Members of IFIP Working Group 2.8
- Computer scientists who contributed to software patents
