Martin Odersky
German computer scientist and professor (born 1958)
Martin Odersky (born 5 September 1958) is a German computer scientist and professor of programming methods at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. He specializes in code analysis and programming languages.2
From Wikipedia’s article on Martin Odersky (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Born Sep 5, 1958.1
About
He spearheaded the design of Scala and Generic Java (and Pizza before).
In 1989, he received his Ph.D. from ETH Zurich under the supervision of Niklaus Wirth, who is best known as the designer of several programming languages, including Pascal. He did postdoctoral work at IBM and Yale University.
In 1997, he implemented the GJ compiler, and his implementation became the basis of javac, the Java compiler.
In 2001, he and others began working on Scala which had its first public release in 2004.
From Wikipedia’s article on Martin Odersky, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2
Companies
- Lightbend Inc.Founder13
Early life and education
- Date not recordedETH Zurich3
Career
Occupation: professor, computer scientist, software developer, engineer, programmer.6
- Date not recordedWorked at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne4
- Date not recordedFounded Lightbend Inc.5
Personal life
Awards
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- 1WikidataMartin Odersky on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaMartin Odersky on Wikipedia
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- 13WikidataLightbend Inc., Founder
- 14Wikimedia CommonsMartin Odersky photo by LindaPoengPhotography, CC BY 3.0