Joe Armstrong (programming)
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| Joe Armstrong | |
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| Born | 27 December 1950 |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden |
| Occupation | Computer programmer, author |
| Employer | Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden |
| Known for | Creating the Erlang programming language |
| Website | joearms |
Joseph "Joe" Leslie Armstrong (27 December 1950 in Bournemouth, England) is a computer scientist working in the area of fault-tolerant distributed systems. He is best known as the author of the Erlang programming language.
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Biography[edit]
Armstrong was born in Bournemouth in 1950.[1]
At 17, Armstrong began programming Fortran on his school district's mainframe. This experience helped him during his physics studies at University College London, where he debugged the programs of his fellow students in exchange for beer. While working for the Ericsson Computer Science Lab, he developed Erlang in 1986.
He received a Ph.D. in computer science from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden in 2003.[2] He has been a professor at KTH since 2014.
Personal life[edit]
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Work[edit]
Peter Seibel wrote:
Originally a physicist, he switched to computer science when he ran out of money in the middle of his physics PhD and landed a job as a researcher working for Donald Michie—one of the founders of the field of artificial intelligence in Britain. At Michie’s lab, Armstrong was exposed to the full range of AI goodies, becoming a founding member of the British Robotics Association and writing papers about robotic vision. When funding for AI dried up as a result of the famous Lighthill [report], it was back to physics-related programming for more than half a decade, first at the EISCAT scientific association and later the Swedish Space Corporation, before finally joining the Ericsson Computer Science Lab, where he invented Erlang.[3]
While working at Ericsson in 1986, Joe Armstrong was one of the designers and implementers of Erlang.
Erlang[edit]
Along with Robert Virding and Mike Williams in 1986, Armstrong developed Erlang, which was released as open source in 1998.
Recognition[edit]
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External links[edit]
- Armstrong on Software - Joe Armstrong's weblog
- Joseph Leslie Armstrong - Prof. Armstrong's home page at KTH
- Homepage at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science
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