Paul Hudak

Paul Hudak
Paul Hudak in 2013
Born	Paul Raymond Hudak (1952-07-15)July 15, 1952 Baltimore, Maryland
Died	April 29, 2015(2015-04-29) (aged 62) New Haven, Connecticut
Resting place	Grove Street Cemetery
Citizenship	American
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	Watkins-Johnson Company Yale University
Alma mater	Vanderbilt University (B.S., 1973) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.S., 1974) University of Utah (Ph.D., 1982)
Thesis	Object and Task Reclamation in Distributed Applicative Processing Systems (1982)
Doctoral advisor	Robert Marion Keller
Doctoral students	Kai Li Sheng Liang
Other notable students	Martin Odersky
Known for	co-designing the Haskell programming language
Notable awards	University of Utah Research Fellow (1981-82) IBM Faculty Development Award (1984) Presidential Young Investigator Award (1985) ACM Fellow (2003) ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential ICFP Paper Award (2007) ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award (2012)
Spouse	Cathy Van Dyke
Children	Jen Hudak Cristina Hudak-Rosander
Website haskell.cs.yale.edu/people/paul-hudak/

Paul Raymond Hudak (July 15, 1952 – April 29, 2015) was an American professor of computer science at Yale University who was best known for his involvement in the design of the Haskell programming language, as well as several textbooks on Haskell and computer music. He was a former Chair of the Department, and was also Master of Saybrook College. He died on April 29, 2015 of leukemia.