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ICFP 2016
Sun 18 - Sat 24 September 2016 Nara, Japan
John Hughes

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Name:John Hughes
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R. John M. Hughes (born ca 1958) is a Swedish computer scientist and professor in the department of Computing Science at the Chalmers University of Technology.

Hughes received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 1984 for the thesis “The Design and Implementation of Programming Languages”.

He is a member of the Functional Programming group at Chalmers, and much of his research relates to the Haskell programming language. He does research in the field of programming languages and is the author of several influential research papers on the subject, including “Why Functional Programming Matters”.[1]

He is also one of the developers of QuickCheck, and cofounder and CEO of QuviQ, which provides the QuickCheck software and offers classes in how to use it.

Affiliation:Chalmers University of Technology

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