Henry Baker
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| Intro | Computer programmer | |||
| Places | United States of America | |||
| is | Computer scientist Engineer | |||
| Work field | Engineering Technology Science | |||
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| Birth | 1912 | |||
| Age | 113 years | |||
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Henry Givens Baker Jr. is an American computer scientist who has made contributions in garbage collection, functional programming languages, and linear logic. He was also one of the founders of Symbolics, a company that designed and manufactured a line of Lisp machines. In 2006 he was recognized as a Distinguished Scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery.
He is notable for his research in garbage collection, particularly Baker's real-time copying collector, and on the Actor model.
Baker received his B.Sc. (1969), S.M. (1973), E.E. (1973), and Ph.D. (1978) degrees at M.I.T.
Chicken Scheme compiler was inspired by an innovative design of Baker's.