Craig Chambers has been a

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since 2007. Prior to this, he was a

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in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the

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. He received his

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degree in Computer Science from

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in 1986 and his

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in Computer Science from

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in 1992. He is best known for the influential research language

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, which introduced prototypes as an alternative to classes, and code-splitting, a compilation technique that generates separate code paths for fast and general cases to speed execution of dynamically typed programs.

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