Paul Raymond Hudak (July 15, 1952 – April 29, 2015) was an American musician and professor of

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...

Yale University 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 wo ...

who was best known for his involvement in the design of the

Haskell programming language Haskell () is a general-purpose, statically-typed, purely functional programming language with type inference and lazy evaluation. Designed for teaching, research and industrial applications, Haskell has pioneered a number of programming lang ...

, as well as several textbooks on Haskell and

computer music Computer music is the application of computing technology in music composition, to help human composers create new music or to have computers independently create music, such as with algorithmic composition programs. It includes the theory and ap ...

. He was a chair of the department, and was also master of

Saybrook College Saybrook College is one of the 14 residential colleges at Yale University. It was founded in 1933 by partitioning the Memorial Quadrangle into two parts: Saybrook and Branford. Unlike many of Yale's residential colleges that are centered on one ...

. He died on April 29, 2015, of

leukemia Leukemia ( also spelled leukaemia and pronounced ) is a group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and result in high numbers of abnormal blood cells. These blood cells are not fully developed and are called ''blasts'' or ' ...

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1952 births 2015 deaths American computer scientists Functional programming Programming language researchers Vanderbilt University alumni Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni University of Utah alumni Yale University faculty Academic journal editors Computer science writers American textbook writers American male non-fiction writers Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Deaths from leukemia {{compu-scientist-stub