Simon Peyton Jones

Simon Peyton Jones
Simon Peyton Jones at the Royal Society admissions day in London in 2016
Born	(1958-01-18) 18 January 1958 (age 59) South Africa
Citizenship	British
Fields	Computer science Functional programming
Institutions	University College London University of Glasgow University of Cambridge Microsoft Research Computing At School
Alma mater	Trinity College, Cambridge
Doctoral students	Maximilian Bolingbroke Andrew Gill Sigbjorn Finne László Németh Paul Roe
Known for	Glasgow Haskell Compiler, C--
Notable awards	ACM Fellow (2004) MAE (2011) SIGPLAN Award (2011) FRS (2016)
Website research.microsoft.com/~simonpj

Simon Peyton Jones FRS (born 18 January 1958) is a British computer scientist who researches the implementation and applications of functional programming languages, particularly lazy functional programming. He is an honorary Professor of Computer Science at the University of Glasgow and co-supervises PhD students at the University of Cambridge.

Peyton Jones graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1980 and went on to complete the Cambridge Diploma in Computer Science.

Peyton Jones worked in industry for two years before serving as a lecturer at University College London and, from 1990 to 1998, as a professor at the University of Glasgow. Since 1998 he has worked as a researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England.

He is a major contributor to the design of the Haskell programming language, and a lead developer of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC). He is also co-creator of the C-- programming language, designed for intermediate program representation between the language-specific front-end of a compiler and a general-purpose back-end code generator and optimiser. C-- is used in GHC.