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Thesis | Abstract interpretation and optimising transformations for applicative programs (1982) |
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Alan Mycroft is a Professor at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge, where he is also director of studies for Computer science.
Mycroft read Mathematics at Cambridge then moved to Edinburgh where he completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree with a thesis on the Abstract interpretation and optimising transformations for applicative programs supervised by Rod Burstall and Robin Milner.
Mycroft's research interests are in Programming Languages, Software Engineering and Algorithms.
With Arthur Norman, he co-created the Norcroft C compiler. He is also a named trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a charitable organisation whose single-board computer is intended to stimulate the teaching of basic computer science in schools.
Mycroft has four children: Christopher, Richard, Sarah and William. His daughter is a medical doctor, and his three sons have followed him into mathematics; Richard as a Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Birmingham and William as a recently started PhD student at the University of Sheffield.