Simon Marlow is a British

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, author, and co-developer of the

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(GHC) for the

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. He and

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won the SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award in 2011 for their work on GHC. Marlow's book ''Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell'' was published in July 2013. Formerly of

Microsoft Research Microsoft Research (MSR) is the research subsidiary of Microsoft. It was created in 1991 by Richard Rashid, Bill Gates and Nathan Myhrvold with the intent to advance state-of-the-art computing and solve difficult world problems through technologi ...

, Marlow has worked at

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since March 2013. The "noted Haskell guru" is part of the team behind Facebook's open source Haxl project, a

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that simplifies access to remote data.

Honours and awards

In 2011, he and

were awarded the SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award for their work on GHC. In 2019, Marlow was awarded the Most Influential ICFP Paper award for "Runtime Support for Multicore Haskell".

References

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