Roland Carl Backhouse
Roland Carl Backhouse is a British computer scientist and mathematician. He is professor emeritus of computing science at the University of Nottingham.
Early life and education
Backhouse was born and raised in the Thorntree district of Middlesbrough, an industrial town in the north-east of England. In 1959, he won a place at the then all-male Acklam Hall Grammar School before going on to Churchill College, Cambridge, in 1966. His doctorate was completed under the supervision of Jim Cunningham at Imperial College London.Career
Backhouse's career has included Royal Aircraft Establishment, Heriot-Watt University, University of Essex. He was formerly Professor of Computer Science at the University of Groningen and Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, before his position at the University of Nottingham.He was 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.