Dec
15

Martin Richards is a British computer scientist, best known for his development of the BCPL programming language, which is both the earliest major development in portable software and the ancestor of the widely used C programming language.

He studied mathematics as an undergraduate student at Cambridge University; his PhD was on programming language design and implementation. He is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.

In addition to BCPL, his work included the development of the TRIPOS portable operating system.

He was awarded the IEEE Computer Society’s “Computer Pioneer Award” in 2003 for “pioneering system software portability through the programming language BCPL”.


External links

  • Martin Richards’ Home Page
  • Martin Richards receives IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award

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