About Henry Baker
Born 1947. Henry Baker is an American computer scientist and engineer.
Henry Givens Baker Jr. is an American computer scientist who has made contributions in garbage collection, functional programming languages, and linear logic. He was one of the founders of Symbolics, a company that designed and manufactured a line of Lisp machines. In 2006, he was recognized as an ACM Distinguished Member.
He is notable for his research in garbage collection, particularly Baker's real-time copying collector, and on the Actor model.
Baker received his B.Sc. (1969), S.M. (1973), E.E. (1973), and Ph.D. (1978) degrees at M.I.T.
The Chicken Scheme compiler was inspired by an innovative design of Baker's.
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