Henry Givens Baker Jr. is an American computer scientist who has made contributions in
garbage collection
Waste collection is a part of the process of waste management. It is the transfer of solid waste from the point of use and disposal to the point of treatment or landfill. Waste collection also includes the curbside collection of recyclabl ...
,
functional programming language
In computer science, functional programming is a programming paradigm where programs are constructed by applying and composing functions. It is a declarative programming paradigm in which function definitions are trees of expressions that ...
s, and
linear logic. He was one of the founders of
Symbolics, a company that designed and manufactured a line of
Lisp machine
Lisp machines are general-purpose computers designed to efficiently run Lisp as their main software and programming language, usually via hardware support. They are an example of a high-level language computer architecture, and in a sense, they ...
s. In 2006 he was recognized as a Distinguished Scientist by the
Association for Computing Machinery.
He is notable for his research in garbage collection, particularly Baker's real-time copying collector, and on the
Actor model.
Baker received his B.Sc. (1969), S.M. (1973), E.E. (1973), and Ph.D. (1978) degrees at
M.I.T.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...
The
Chicken Scheme compiler
Chicken (stylized as CHICKEN) is a programming language, specifically a compiler and interpreter which implement a dialect of the programming language Scheme, and which compiles Scheme source code to standard C. It is mostly R5RS compliant an ...
was inspired by an innovative design of Baker's.
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External links
Henry Baker's Archive of Research Papersat the Internet Archive
Programming language researchers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
American computer scientists
21st-century American scientists
20th-century American scientists
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