Conor McBride

Conor McBride
Conor McBride
Born	18 February 1973; Newtownards, Northern Ireland
Alma mater	University of Edinburgh
	Scientific career
Fields	Computer science; Type theory
Institutions	Durham University; Royal Holloway, University of London; University of Strathclyde
Thesis	Dependently Typed Functional Programs and their Proofs (1999)
Website	strictlypositive.org

Conor McBride (born 18 February 1973) is a Reader in the department of Computer and Information Sciences at the University of Strathclyde. In 1999, he completed a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Dependently Typed Functional Programs and their Proofs at the University of Edinburgh for his work in type theory. He formerly worked at Durham University and briefly at Royal Holloway, University of London before joining the academic staff at the University of Strathclyde.

He was involved with developing international standards in programming and informatics, as a member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) IFIP Working Group 2.1 on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi, which specified, maintains, and supports the programming languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68.

He favors and often uses the language Haskell.

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