Simon Thompson

Simon Thompson is a research computer scientist, author, and an emeritus professor of the University of Kent, specializing in logic and computation. His research into functional programming covers software verification and validation, programming tool-building, and software testing for the functional programming languages Erlang, Haskell, and OCaml. 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.

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". Thompson's doctoral adviser was Robin Oliver Gandy.

Work , he worked for Input Output Global, Input Output Hong Kong 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. His most recent articles have been related to Core Erlang.

Books His books include:

Quotes, Francesco Cesarini, founder: Erlang Solutions Ltd.