Christopher Strachey

Christopher Strachey
Early computer printout of Christopher Strachey in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
Born(1916-11-16)16 November 1916
Hampstead, England
Died18 May 1975(1975-05-18) (aged 58)
Oxford, England
CitizenshipBritish
EducationGresham's School
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA)
Known forCPL, denotational semantics, Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages, time-sharing
Parent(s)Oliver Strachey
Ray Costelloe
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Science
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge,
University of Oxford
St Edmund's School, Canterbury
Harrow School
Doctoral studentsPeter Mosses
David Turner

Christopher S. Strachey (/ˈstri/; 16 November 1916 – 18 May 1975) was a British computer scientist.[1][2][3] He was one of the founders of denotational semantics, and a pioneer in programming language design and computer time-sharing.[4] He has also been credited as possibly being the first developer of a video game[5] and for coining terms such as polymorphism and referential transparency that are still widely used by developers today.[6] He was a member of the Strachey family, prominent in government, arts, administration, and academia.

  1. ^ Christopher Strachey: British computer scientist, Encyclopædia Britannica.
  2. ^ Catalogue of the papers and correspondence of Christopher Strachey (1916–1975), The National Archives, United Kingdom.
  3. ^ Gordon, M.J.C., Christopher Strachey: Recollections of His Influence, Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation, 13(1–2):65–67, April 2000. ISSN 1388-3690. (PostScript version Archived 13 March 2017 at the Wayback Machine.)
  4. ^ F. J. Corbató, et al., The Compatible Time-Sharing System A Programmer's Guide (MIT Press, 1963) ISBN 978-0-262-03008-3. "the first paper on time-shared computers by C. Strachey at the June 1959 UNESCO Information Processing conference"
  5. ^ Brown, Stuart (4 October 2019). "The First Video Game". YouTube. Archived from the original on 4 October 2019. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
  6. ^ Strachey, Christopher (1967). Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages (Technical report). Lecture notes for the International Summer School in Computer Programming at Copenhagen.

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