R. Kent Dybvig
Encyclopedia
R. Kent Dybvig is a professor of Computer Science
at Indiana University
in Bloomington, Indiana
.
His research focuses on programming language
s, and he is known in the Lisp community as the principal developer of the Chez Scheme
compiler and run-time system. Together with Daniel P. Friedman
, he has long advocated the use of the Scheme language in teaching computer science.
For his contributions to both the practical and theoretical aspects of computing and information technology, in particular his design and development of Chez Scheme, the
ACM
named Dybvig a Distinguished Engineer in 2006, the first year the association awarded distinguished ranks.
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
at Indiana University
Indiana University Bloomington
Indiana University Bloomington is a public research university located in Bloomington, Indiana, in the United States. IU Bloomington is the flagship campus of the Indiana University system. Being the flagship campus, IU Bloomington is often referred to simply as IU or Indiana...
in Bloomington, Indiana
Bloomington, Indiana
Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County in the southern region of the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 80,405 at the 2010 census....
.
His research focuses on programming language
Programming language
A programming language is an artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behavior of a machine and/or to express algorithms precisely....
s, and he is known in the Lisp community as the principal developer of the Chez Scheme
Chez Scheme
Chez Scheme is a proprietary Scheme implementation by R. Kent Dybvig, first released in 1985, which uses incremental native-code compilation to produce native binaries for the PowerPC, SPARC; x86 and x86-64 processor architectures...
compiler and run-time system. Together with Daniel P. Friedman
Daniel P. Friedman
Daniel Paul Friedman is a professor of Computer Science at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. His research focuses on programming languages, and he is a prominent author in the field....
, he has long advocated the use of the Scheme language in teaching computer science.
For his contributions to both the practical and theoretical aspects of computing and information technology, in particular his design and development of Chez Scheme, 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...
named Dybvig a Distinguished Engineer in 2006, the first year the association awarded distinguished ranks.