Simon Thompson (professor)

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Simon Thompson
Education D.Phil., University of Oxford, 1984
Known for Functional programming research,
Cardano domain-specific languages: Marlowe
Scientific career
Fields Computer science
Institutions University of Kent
Input Output Global
Thesis Recursion theories on the continuous functionals  (1984)
Doctoral advisor Robin Oliver Gandy

Simon Thompson is a research computer scientist, author, and an emeritus professor of the University of Kent, specializing in logic and computation. [1] His research into functional programming covers software verification and validation, programming tool-building, and software testing for the functional programming languages Erlang, [2] Haskell, [3] [4] and OCaml. [5] [6] [7] He is the author of books on data type theory, Miranda, Haskell, and Erlang, and runs a massive open online course about Erlang for FutureLearn.

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Education

Thompson earned a Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.) from the University of Oxford in 1984 with a dissertation titled "Recursion theories on the continuous functionals". [8] Thompson's doctoral adviser was Robin Oliver Gandy. [9]

Work

As of 2025, he worked for Input Output Global, Input Output Hong Kong [10] on domain-specific languages for the Cardano blockchain platform. There, he developed a specialised smart contract language, Marlowe, designed for non-programmers working in the financial sector. [11] [12] His most recent articles have been related to Core Erlang.

Books

His books include:

References

  1. ↑ Thompson, Simon (20 October 2023). "Professor Simon Thompson". University of Kent: School of Computing. Canterbury, Kent, England.
  2. ↑ Bereczky, Péter; Horpácsi, Dániel; Thompson, Simon (23 August 2020). Machine-Checked Natural Semantics for Core Erlang: Exceptions and Side Effects. International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP). Online – via ACM SIGPLAN.
  3. ↑ Thompson, Simon (May 1997). Higher-order + Polymorphic = Reusable (Report). Canterbury, Kent: School of Computing, University of Kent . Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  4. ↑ Li, Huiqing; Thompson, Simon; Reinke, Claus (April 2005). "The Haskell Refactorer: HaRe, and its API". In Boyland, John Tang; Hedin, Görel (eds.). Proceedings of the 5th workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools and Applications. Canterbury, Kent: School of Computing, University of Kent. pp. 182–196. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  5. ↑ Rowe, Reuben N. S.; Thompson, Simon (8 September 2017). ROTOR: First Steps Towards a Refactoring Tool for OCaml. International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP). Phoenix, Arizona – via ACM SIGPLAN.
  6. ↑ Rowe, Reuben N. S.; Férée, Hugo; Thompson, Simon; Owens, Scott (25 June 2019). Characterising Renaming within OCaml's Module System: Theory and Implementation. Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI). Phoenix, Arizona – via ACM SIGPLAN.
  7. ↑ Harrison, Joseph; Varoumas, Steven; Thompson, Simon; Rowe, Reuben (28 August 2020). API migration: compare transformed. International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP). Online – via ACM SIGPLAN.
  8. ↑ Thompson, Simon (June 1985). "Axiomatic Recursion Theory and the Continuous Functionals" . Journal of Symbolic Logic. 50 (2). New York, New York: 442–450. doi:10.2307/2274232. JSTOR   2274232. S2CID   26299352.
  9. ↑ "Mathematics Genealogy Project". North Dakota State University: Department of Mathematics.
  10. ↑ "IOHK: Team: Prof Simon Thompson: Technical Project Director Research". Input Output. n.d. Archived from the original on 28 November 2022.
  11. ↑ Input Output Hong Kong (11 December 2018). "Marlowe: financial contracts on blockchain". Input Output Hong Kong.
  12. ↑ Lamela Seijas, Pablo; Nemish, Alexander; Smith, David; Thompson, Simon (2020). "Marlowe: Implementing and Analysing Financial Contracts on Blockchain". In Matthew Bernhard; Andrea Bracciali; L. Jean Camp; Shin'ichiro Matsuo; Alana Maurushat; Peter B. Rønne; Massimiliano Sala (eds.). Financial Cryptography and Data Security. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 12063. Cham: Springer International Publishing. pp. 496–511. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-54455-3_35 . ISBN   978-3-030-54455-3.
  13. ↑ "Miranda: A Non-strict, Polymorphic, Functional Language". 2010.
  14. ↑ Richards, Hamilton (November 1998). "Book reviews" (PDF). Journal of Functional Programming. 8 (6): 633–637. doi:10.1017/S0956796898213220.
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