Matthias Felleisen is a computer science

Computer science

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 professor and an author of German

Germany

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 background.

Felleisen is currently a Trustee Professor in the College of Computer and Information Science

Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Science

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 at Northeastern University

Northeastern University, Boston

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 in Boston

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, Massachusetts

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. In the past he has taught at Rice University

Rice University

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 after receiving his PhD from Indiana University

Indiana University

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 under the direction of Daniel P. Friedman

Daniel P. Friedman

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Felleisen's interests include programming languages, including software tools, program design, software contracts, and many more. In the 1990s, Felleisen launched PLT and TeachScheme! (now ProgramByDesign) with the goal of teaching program-design principles to beginners and to explore the use of Scheme to produce large systems. As part of this effort, he authored How to Design Programs

How to Design Programs

How to Design Programs is a textbook by Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt and Shriram Krishnamurthi on the systematic design of computer programs published in 2001 by MIT Press. The book introduces the concept of a design recipe, a six-step process for creating programs from...

(MIT Press, 2001) with Findler, Flatt

Matthew Flatt

Matthew Flatt is a computer scientist, currently teaching at the University of Utah . He is also a member of the PLT group and, as such, responsible for the creation and maintenance of Racket....

, and Krishnamurthi.

Felleisen gave the keynote addresses at the 2011 Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2010 International Symposium on Functional Programming, 2004 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming and the 2001 Symposium on the Principles of Programming Languages, and several other conferences and workshops on computer science.

In 2006 he was inducted as a Fellow

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 of the Association for Computing Machinery

Association for Computing Machinery

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. In 2009 he received the Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award from the ACM

Association for Computing Machinery

The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...

. In 2010 he received the SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education from the ACM.

Books

Felleisen is co-author of:

• How to Design Programs
  How to Design Programs
  How to Design Programs is a textbook by Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt and Shriram Krishnamurthi on the systematic design of computer programs published in 2001 by MIT Press. The book introduces the concept of a design recipe, a six-step process for creating programs from...
  
  (MIT Press)
• A Little Java, A Few Patterns (MIT Press, 1998)
• The Little MLer (MIT Press, 1998)
• The Little Schemer (MIT Press, 4th Ed., 1996)
• The Seasoned Schemer (MIT Press, 1996)

External links

• Matthias at Northeastern University
• College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University