Hamilton Richards Senior Lecturer (retired 31 May 2005)

electronic mail: home: hrichards at swbell point net CS Dept: ham at cs point utexas point edu permanent: hr60 at post point harvard point edu

about me

academia	Harvard College: A.B. 1960, B.S. 1962 mechanical engineering Stanford Univ. M.S. 1966 aero engineering Iowa State Univ. Ph.D. 1976 computer science
work	I started programming in the 1960’s as a mechanical engineer in the aerospace industry. After a two-year stint in the Peace Corps in Ethiopia, I continued programming at Fairchild Semiconductor, where I built the first operating system software for the Symbol Computer. I continued work on the Symbol machine at Iowa State University, earning my Ph.D. in 1976. For the next 11 years I worked on dataflow and functional programming projects at various Burroughs Corporation laboratories. When the Austin lab closed in 1986, I came to The University of Texas at Austin to coordinate the symposia and publications of the UT Year of Programming. After the YoP ended, I taught mainly undergraduate Computer Science courses.
personal	I've been a member of the Austin Rowing Club since 1985, and I row my single scull on Town Lake several times per week. My wife Joanne recently retired as Senior Lecturer and Assistant Dean in UT’s College of Pharmacy; we have been married since 1968. Our son Benjamin is a SCUBA diver, a photographer, and an EMT, with a PhD (2011) in marine science from the University of Hawaii. He developed the web site of the NOAA Florida Keys Marine Sanctuary, where he was employed for several years as a research diver and webmaster.

some interesting links

functional programming	the Haskell home page the functional-programming newsgroup's FAQ page. All About Monads some noteworthy papers
formal reasoning	the Edsger W. Dijkstra archive, which I maintain

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