Hamilton Richards, Jr.
Senior Lecturer
B.A. in Engineering and Applied Physics (1960), B.S. (1962), Harvard College
M.S. in Aero- and Astronautics Engineering (1966), Stanford University
Ph.D. in Computer Science (1976), Iowa State University
Professional Service
- Coordinator, The University of Texas at Austin Year of Programming,
1987
- Series Editor, UT-YOP, 4 vols., Addison Wesley, 1990
Areas of Interest
Functional programming, concurrent processing, object-oriented programming,
and undergraduate education
Summary of Research
I maintain a long-standing interest in functional programming, its potential
for concurrent processing, and its suitability for formal reasoning. In
Fall 1995 I am using a functional programming language in teaching a section
of CS1, and I am working as time permits on a functional-language implementation
of a real microcomputer application. A longer-term project is a book on
functional algorithms.
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