CentralNotice Simon Peyton Jones From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search Simon Peyton Jones Simon Peyton Jones Born ( 1958-01-18 ) 18 January 1958 (age 57) South Africa Citizenship British Fields Computer science Functional programming [ 1 ] Institutions University College London University of Glasgow University of Cambridge Microsoft Research Computing at School [ 2 ] Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge Doctoral students Andrew Gill [ 3 ] Sigbjorn Finne [ 4 ] László Németh [ 5 ] Paul Roe [ 6 ] Known for Glasgow Haskell Compiler Notable awards FACM (2004) MAE (2011) SIGPLAN Award (2011) Website research .microsoft .com /~simonpj Simon Peyton Jones (born 18 January 1958) is a British computer scientist who researches the implementation and applications of functional programming lan...