David R. Hanson is a software engineer who worked at

Google Google LLC () is an American multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. ...

until he retired in January 2012, working in programming languages, compilers, software tools, and programming environments. Before joining Google, he was with

Microsoft Research Microsoft Research (MSR) is the research subsidiary of Microsoft. It was created in 1991 by Richard Rashid, Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold with the intent to advance state-of-the-art computing and solve difficult world problems through technologi ...

Princeton Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine ...

University of Arizona The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it was the first university in the Arizona Territory. T ...

, and

Yale Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wor ...

. He has written many journal and conference papers and two books: ''A Retargetable C Compiler: Design and Implementation'' with

Christopher Fraser Christopher James Fraser, OBE (born 25 October 1962) is a former British Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mid Dorset and North Poole from the 1997 general election to 2001 and South West Norfolk from 20 ...

, which describes lcc, a widely used compiler for Standard C, and ''C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software''. Hanson is largely responsible for designing and implementing the "View as Slideshow" feature for

PowerPoint Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program, created by Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin at a software company named Forethought, Inc. It was released on April 20, 1987, initially for Macintosh computers only. Microsoft acquired PowerPoi ...

and attachments in Google's Gmail system. Hanson enjoys skiing and cycling. He also builds furniture.

References

External links

Home page for David R. Hanson

lcc web site

''C Interfaces and Implementations'' web site
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