About J. Roger Hindley
Born 1938. J. Roger Hindley is a British philosopher, university teacher and mathematician, known for Hindley–Milner type inference algorithm.
J. Roger Hindley is a prominent British logician best known for the Hindley–Milner type inference algorithm. Since 1998, he has been an Honorary Research Fellow at Swansea University.
Education Hindley graduated in 1960 from Queen's University Belfast, remaining to earn an M.Sc. in 1961.
He went on to receive a Ph.D. in 1964 from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where his thesis supervisor was Ronald Harrop. Later, he returned to Queen's University for a D.Sc. in 1991.
He taught at Penn State University (1964–1966), Bristol University (1966–1968), and has been at Swansea University since 1968.
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British logician
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J. Roger Hindley was born in 1938.
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J. Roger Hindley is a philosopher, university teacher and mathematician.
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