• Christopher S. Strachey (/ˈstreɪtʃi/; 16 November 1916 – 18 May 1975) was a British computer scientist. He was one of the founders of denotational semantics...
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    Draughts, is a 1952 video game developed by British computer scientist Christopher Strachey. It is one of the first computer programs in the early history of...
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  • England. William Strachey the English writer William Strachey (c. 1596/97–1635) John Strachey (d. 1674), friend of John Locke John Strachey (geologist) (1671–1743)...
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  • nicknamed by some as "Cambridge Plus London" or "Christopher's Programming Language"). Christopher Strachey, David Barron and others were involved in its...
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  • Programming Languages were an influential set of lecture notes written by Christopher Strachey for the International Summer School in Computer Programming at Copenhagen...
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  • In 1952, Christopher Strachey wrote a combinatory algorithm for the Manchester Mark 1 computer which could create love letters. The poems it generated...
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  • polymorphism and parametric polymorphism were originally described in Christopher Strachey's Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages, where they are listed...
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    him the Turing Award in 1976, while his collaborative work with Christopher Strachey in the 1970s laid the foundations of modern approaches to the semantics...
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    University of Oxford), following the death of Christopher Strachey. He became the first Christopher Strachey Professor of Computing on its establishment...
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  • The concept of first- and second-class objects was introduced by Christopher Strachey in the 1960s. He did not actually define the term strictly, but contrasted...
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    several notable advances in game artificial intelligence. In 1951 Christopher Strachey created Checkers, a simulation of the board game. The checkers game...
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    Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest (born 5 February 1948), known professionally as Christopher Guest, is a British-American actor, comedian...
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    computers provide computing power to organizations in their region. Christopher Strachey, who became Oxford University's first professor of computation, filed...
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  • originated in the work of Christopher Strachey and Dana Scott published in the early 1970s. As originally developed by Strachey and Scott, denotational...
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    development was the product of three men: W. S. (Bill) Elliott (hardware), Christopher Strachey (software) and Bernard Swann (marketing and customer support). It...
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    The PRG was founded by Christopher Strachey (1916–1975) in 1965. It was originally located at 45 Banbury Road. After Strachey's untimely death, C.A.R....
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  • ordinary variables with a function type. The term was coined by Christopher Strachey in the context of "functions as first-class citizens" in the mid-1960s...
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    using the Ferranti Mark 1 machine of the University of Manchester, Christopher Strachey wrote a checkers program and Dietrich Prinz wrote one for chess....
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    telephone lines at a speed of 110 bits per second (bit/s). In 1959, Christopher Strachey filed a patent application for time-sharing in the United Kingdom...
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  • June 1959 in Paris, and is now considered the first IFIP Congress. Christopher Strachey gave a paper "Time Sharing in Large Fast Computers" at the conference...
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  • to simplify a program and thus make its result more clear. Christopher Strachey, Christopher P. Wadsworth and John C. Reynolds brought the term continuation...
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  • later successfully reconstructed. OXO, along with a checkers game by Christopher Strachey completed around the same time, is one of the earliest known games...
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  • of an Applicative Language to Combinatory Logic", supervised by Christopher Strachey and Dana Scott. He held professorships at Queen Mary College, London...
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  • although Arthur Samuel's checkers program was released earlier. Christopher Strachey also wrote a checkers program in 1951 "Allen Newell, 65; Scientist...
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    Ray Strachey (born Rachel Pearsall Conn Costelloe; 4 June 1887 – 16 July 1940) was a British feminist politician, artist and writer. Her father was Irish...
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    Bolt Beranek and Newman in 1957. He learned about time-sharing from Christopher Strachey at a UNESCO-sponsored conference on Information Processing in Paris...
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    Williams, M., eds., Proceedings of KR-2002, 615–628. Biography portal Christopher Strachey, filed a patent for time-sharing in early 1959 Cornucopian Frame...
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  • Manchester in the autumn of 1951. The music program was written by Christopher Strachey. Among the earliest group of electric musical instruments in Japan...
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    general purpose. Examples included SAGE (1958) and SABRE (1960). Christopher Strachey, who became Oxford University's first Professor of Computation, filed...
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    Computer Science at University College London. He was previously the Christopher Strachey Professor of Computing at Wolfson College, Oxford, from 2000 to 2021...
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