Henry Baker (computer scientist)

Short description: American computer scientist

Henry Baker

Alma mater| MIT
Scientific career
Thesis| Actor systems for real-time computation (1978)
Doctoral advisor| Carl Hewitt
Website| home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/

Henry Givens Baker Jr. is an American computer scientist who has made contributions in garbage collection, functional programming languages, and linear logic. He was one of the founders of Symbolics, a company that designed and manufactured a line of Lisp machines. In 2006 he was recognized as a Distinguished Scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery.

He is notable for his research in garbage collection, particularly Baker's real-time copying collector, and on the Actor model.

Baker received his B.Sc. (1969), S.M. (1973), E.E. (1973), and Ph.D. (1978) degrees at M.I.T.

The Chicken Scheme compiler was inspired by an innovative design of Baker's.[1]

## Bibliography

* Hewitt, Carl; Baker, Henry (August 1–5, 1977), "Actors and Continuous Functionals", Proceeding of IFIP Working Conference on Formal Description of Programming Concepts
* Hewitt, Carl; Baker, Henry G. (1977), "Laws for Communicating Parallel Processes", IFIP Congress: 987–92
* Baker, Henry (January 1978), Actor Systems for Real-Time Computation, Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
* Baker, Henry G. (1978), "Shallow binding in LISP 1.5", Communications of the ACM 21 (7): 565–9, doi:10.1145/359545.359566, http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/ShallowBinding.html
* Baker, Henry G. (4 April 1978), "List processing in real time on a serial computer.", Communications of the ACM 21 (4): 280–294, doi:10.1145/359460.359470

## References

1. ↑ Henry G. Baker (Aug 1, 1995). "CONS Should Not CONS Its Arguments, part II: Cheney on the M.T.A.". ACM SIGPLAN Notices 30 (9): 17–20. doi:10.1145/214448.214454. ISSN 0362-1340. http://www.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/CheneyMTA.html.

## External links

* Henry Baker's Archive of Research Papers at the Internet Archive

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