David Park (computer scientist)

David Michael Ritchie Park (1935 – 29 September 1990) was a British computer scientist. He worked on the first implementation of the programming language Lisp.^[1] He became an authority on the topics of fairness, program schemas and bisimulation in concurrent computing.^[2][3] At the University of Warwick, he was one of the earliest members of the computer science department, and served as chairperson.^[3]

David Park
Born	1935 (1935)
Died	29 September 1990(1990-09-29) (aged 54–55) Warwick, United Kingdom
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Education	University of Oxford Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for	Lisp Bisimulation
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics Computer science
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Cambridge University of Warwick
Thesis	Set-Theoretic Constructions in Model Theory  (1964)
Doctoral advisor	Hartley Rogers Jr.
Doctoral students	Mike Paterson