Alan Mycroft

Alan Mycroft
Fields	Programming languages Compilation Static Analysis
Institutions	University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory Raspberry Pi Foundation
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (BA, MA, ScD) University of Edinburgh (PhD)
Thesis	Abstract interpretation and optimising transformations for applicative programs (1982)
Doctoral advisor	Rod Burstall Robin Milner
Doctoral students	Gavin Bierman Michael B. Gale Andrew Kennedy Alan Lawrence Anton Lokhmotov Dominic Orchard Sriram Srinivasan
Known for	Norcroft C compiler Raspberry Pi Foundation
Children	Christopher Mycroft Richard Mycroft Sarah Mycroft William Mycroft
Website www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/am

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.

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