Martin Odersky (born 5 September 1958) is a

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and professor of programming methods at

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(EPFL) in Switzerland. He specializes in code analysis and

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s. He designed with help from others the Scala programming language and Generic Java (and

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before). In 1989, he received his Ph.D. from

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under the supervision of

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, who is best known as the designer of several programming languages, including

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. He did postdoctoral work at IBM and

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. In 1997, he implemented the GJ compiler, and his implementation became the basis of

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, the Java compiler. In 2002, he and others began working on Scala which had its first public release in 2003. In 2007, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. On 12 May 2011, Odersky and collaborators launched Typesafe Inc. (renamed Lightbend Inc., ), a company to provide commercial support, training, and services for Scala. He teaches three courses on the

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online learning platform: ''Functional Programming Principles in Scala'', ''Functional Program Design in Scala'' and ''Programming Reactive Systems'' .

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Biographical notice
EPFL website *
Interview with Martin Odersky about Scala
Dr. Dobb's, 2011
Martin Odersky on the Future of Scala
Interview by Sadek Drobi on Jan 10, 2012 Living people German computer scientists Programming language designers Programming language researchers Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery Scala (programming language) 1958 births ETH Zurich alumni École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne faculty {{compu-bio-stub

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