Rod Burstall
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Rod Burstall
Born
11 November 1934
, England
Died
13 February 2025
(aged 90)
Alma mater
Known for
(renamed POP-1),
,
,
Awards
SIGPLAN 2009 Programming Language
Achievement Award
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
N. A. Dudley
K. Brian Haley
Doctoral
students
Website
Rodney Martineau Burstall
(11 November 1934 – 13 February 2025)
was a British
who was one of four founders of the
at the
.
Biography
[
]
Burstall studied physics at the
, then an
in
at the
. He
worked for three years before returning to Birmingham University
to earn a
in 1966 with thesis titled
Heuristic and Decision
Tree Methods on Computers: Some Operational Research Applications
under the supervision of N. A. Dudley and K. B. Haley.
Burstall was an early and influential proponent of
,
, and
, and is known
for his work with
on
(renamed POP-1) and
, innovative programming languages developed at the
around 1970, and later work with
on
and
and with David MacQueen and
on
, a precursor to
,
, and
.
In
1995, he was elected a Fellow of the
.
Burstall retired in 2000, becoming Professor Emeritus.
In 2002,
and
assembled a
for
Burstall that was published in
.
In 2009, he was awarded the
(ACM)
Programming Language Achievement
Award.
Burstall died on 13 February 2025, at the age of 90.
Books
[
]
May 1971:
Programming in POP-11
,
.
1980: (with
)
Artificial Intelligence: An Introductory Course
, Edinburgh University Press.
1988: (with D. E. Rydeheard)
Computational Category Theory
,
,
.
References
[
]
^
at the
Kerse, Eleanor (2002). "Ode to Rod Burstall".
Formal Aspects of Computing
.
13
(
3–
5).
: 194.
:
.
.
. University of Edinburgh
. Retrieved
31 October
2012
.
^
D. Rydeheard &
(July 2002) "A Collection of Papers and Memoirs Celebrating the Contribution of Rod Burstall to
Advances in Computer Science",
13(3-5): 187–193
:
.
The Royal Society of Edinburgh
. Retrieved
12 March
2018
.
^
Moore, J Strother; Plotkin, Gordon; Rydeheard, David; Sannella, Don (31 October 2025).
.
Form. Asp. Comput
.
37
(4): 27:1–27:10.
:
.
:
.
.
.
(ACM)
.
Retrieved
22 September
2012
.
Wallace, Malcolm.
.
. Retrieved
22 September
2012
.
Introduced by
.
External links
[
]
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