Rod Burstall
Rod Burstall | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 November 1934 Liverpool, England |
| Died | 13 February 2025 (aged 90) |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge University of Birmingham |
| Known for | COWSEL (renamed POP-1), POP-2, NPL, Hope |
| Awards | ACM SIGPLAN 2009 Programming Language Achievement Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | University of Edinburgh |
| Doctoral advisor | N. A. Dudley K. Brian Haley |
| Doctoral students | Thorsten Altenkirch John Darlington Mike Gordon Conor McBride J Strother Moore Alan Mycroft Gordon Plotkin Don Sannella |
| Website | http://www.freewebs.com/rodburstall/ |
Rodney Martineau Burstall (11 November 1934 – 13 February 2025) was a British computer scientist who was one of four founders of the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh.