John Hughes (computer scientist)

Not to be confused with John F. Hughes (computer scientist).

R. John M. Hughes (born 15 July 1958) is a computer scientist and professor in the computer science department at Chalmers University of Technology.^[1]

R. John M. Hughes
John Hughes.
Born	(1958-07-15) 15 July 1958 (age 66) Sweden
Education	University of Oxford, PhD, 1984
Known for	Functional programming group at Chalmers Haskell language research QuickCheck; cofounder, CEO of QuviQ "Why Functional Programming Matters" Software testing
Awards	Elected ACM Fellow, 2018
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science, functional programming
Institutions	Chalmers University of Technology, QuviQ
Thesis	The Design and Implementation of Programming Languages (1984)
Website	www.cse.chalmers.se/~rjmh

Contributions

In 1984, Hughes received his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from the University of Oxford for the thesis "The Design and Implementation of Programming Languages".^[2]

Hughes does research in the field of programming languages. He is a member of the functional programming group at Chalmers, and has written many influential research papers on the subject, including "Why Functional Programming Matters".^[3] Much of his research relates to the language Haskell.

Hughes is one of the developers of the QuickCheck library, and a cofounder and CEO of QuviQ, which provides QuickCheck software and offers classes in how to use it.^[4]

In 2016, he appeared in the popular science YouTube channel Computerphile explaining functional programming and QuickCheck.^[5][6]

Recognition

Hughes was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2018 for "contributions to software testing and functional programming".^[7]

See also

• Haskell
• QuickCheck

Bibliography

• J. Hughes. "Generalizing monads to arrows".^[8] Science of Computer Programming, (37):67-111, 2000.