J. Roger Hindley

J. Roger Hindley
Born	1939 (1939)
Alma mater	Queen's University Belfast
Known for	Hindley–Milner type inference algorithm
Scientific career
Fields	Logic, Type theory
Institutions	Swansea University
Doctoral advisor	Ronald Harrop

J. Roger Hindley is a prominent British logician best known for the Hindley–Milner type inference algorithm. Since 1998, he has been an Honorary Research Fellow at Swansea University.

Education

Hindley graduated in 1960 from Queen's University Belfast, remaining to earn an M.Sc. in 1961.

He went on to receive a Ph.D. in 1964 from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, where his thesis supervisor was Ronald Harrop. Later, he returned to Queen's University for a D.Sc. in 1991.

He taught at Penn State University (1964–1966), Bristol University (1966–1968), and has been at Swansea University since 1968.

Selected publications

• Hindley, J. Roger (1969), "The principal type-scheme of an object in combinatory logic", Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 146: 29–60, doi:10.2307/1995158, JSTOR 1995158, MR 0253905.

• Hindley, J. Roger (2008), Basic simple type theory (2nd ed.), Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521054225, retrieved 22 June 2009.

References

• J. Roger Hindley at the Mathematics Genealogy Project