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Richard Simpson Bird
Richard Simpson Bird
	Professor Richard S. Bird
Born	13 February 1943; London, England
Died	4 April 2022 (aged 79)
Known for	Algorithm design; Functional programming; Bird–Meertens formalism
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer science
Institutions	University of Reading; University of Oxford
Website	www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/richard.bird

Richard Simpson Bird (4 February 1943 – 4 April 2022)^[1] was an English computer scientist.

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Bird's research interests lay in algorithm design and functional programming, and he was known as a regular contributor to the Journal of Functional Programming, and as author of several books promoting use of the programming language Haskell, including Introduction to Functional Programming using Haskell,^[4] Thinking Functionally with Haskell,^[5] Algorithm Design with Haskell co-authored with Jeremy Gibbons,^[6] and other books on related topics.^[7]^[8] His name is associated with the Bird–Meertens formalism, a calculus for deriving programs from specifications in a functional programming style.

^ "Professor Richard Bird (4 February 1943 – 4 April 2022)". College News. Oxford University. 20 April 2022.
^ Fellows & Staff, Lincoln College, Oxford, UK.
^ Richard Bird, Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK.
^ Bird, Richard (1998). Introduction to Functional Programming using Haskell (2nd ed.). Prentice Hall Press. ISBN 978-0-13-484346-9.
^ Bird, Richard (2014). Thinking Functionally with Haskell. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-45264-0.
^ Bird, Richard; Gibbons, Jeremy (July 2020). Algorithm Design with Haskell. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-108-49161-7.
^ Bird, Richard (1972–2006). "Publications". Oxford University Computing Laboratory. United Kingdom.
^ Bird, Richard (2021). "Richard Bird". University of Oxford Department of Computer Science. United Kingdom.
^ Jeuring, Johan; Meertens, Lambert; Guttmann, Walter (17 August 2016). "Profile of IFIP Working Group 2.1". Foswiki. Retrieved 10 September 2020.
^ Swierstra, Doaitse; Gibbons, Jeremy; Meertens, Lambert (2 March 2011). "ScopeEtc: IFIP21: Foswiki". Foswiki. Retrieved 10 September 2020.