Conor McBride
Conor McBride is a reader in the department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Strathclyde. In 1999, they completed a Doctor of Philosophy in Dependently Typed Functional Programs and their Proofs at the University of Edinburgh for their work in type theory. They formerly worked at Durham University and briefly at Royal Holloway, University of London before joining the academic staff at the University of Strathclyde.
They were involved with developing international standards in programming and informatics, as a member of the International Federation for Information Processing IFIP Working Group 2.1 on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi, which specified, maintains, and supports the programming languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68.
They favor and often use the language Haskell.