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about_page_title : Who We Are
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- | Name Pending, Executive Director |
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- | his paragraph will contain a photo and short bio of our chosen Executive Director. |
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+ ### Haskell Foundation Executive Director
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+ The Board of Directors is currently seeking an Executive Directory. The
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+ Haskell Foundation's executive director will oversee the daily operations
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+ of the foundation.
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### The Haskell Foundation Interim Board of Directors
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- |------------------------------------|------------------------------------|------------------------------------|
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- | Simon Peyton-Jones | Simon Marlow | Edward Kmett |
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- | Placeholder for SPJ bio and photo. | Placeholder for SPJ bio and photo. | Placeholder for SPJ bio and photo. |
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+ The Haskell Foundation board of directors is a group of individuals who are
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+ responsible for managing and setting the direction of the Haskell
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+ Foundation. The [board of directors](/board-of-directors) are responsible
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+ for managing. The *interim board* will serve the Haskell Foundation
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+ during it's initial launch phase and will manage the establishment of the
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+ first full board.
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+ #### Members of the Interim Board of Directors
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+ |  |
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+ |--|
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+ |**Simon Peyton Jones**|
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+ |I’m a researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England. I |
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+ |started here in Sept 1998. I’m also an Honorary Professor of the |
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+ |Computing Science Department at Glasgow University, where I was a |
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+ |professor during 1990-1998. |
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+ | |
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+ |I am married to Dorothy, a priest in the Church of England. We |
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+ |have six children. |
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+ | |
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+ |I’m interested in the design, implementation, and application of |
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+ |lazy functional languages. In practical terms, that means I spend |
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+ |a most of my time on the design and implementation of the |
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+ |language Haskell. In particular, much of my work is focused |
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+ |around the Glasgow Haskell Compiler, and its ramifications. |
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+ | |
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+ |I am chair of Computing at School, the group at the epicentre of |
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+ |the reform of the national curriculum for Computing in England. |
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+ |Computer science is now a foundational subject, alongside maths |
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+ |and natural science, that every child learns from primary school |
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+ |onwards (background here). |
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+ |  |
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+ |--|
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+ |**Chris Dornan**|
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+ |Chris has been interested in Haskell since the early reports and |
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+ |wrote the original Alex package in the 1990s. In the late |
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+ |nineties Chris taught Haskell to undergraduates in UCC (Cork) and |
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+ |in the noughties used Haskell tools to develop key aspects of the |
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+ |ARMv7 architecture. Since 2013 Chris has been chief Engineer for |
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+ |IRIS Connect where he has overseen the development of the new |
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+ |IRIS Connect video platform which makes extensive use of Haskell |
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+ |in the back end. |
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+ |  |
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+ |--|
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+ |**Edward Kmett**|
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+ |I spent most of my adult life trying to build reusable code in |
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+ |imperative languages before realizing I was building castles in |
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+ |sand. I converted to Haskell in 2006 while searching for better |
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+ |building materials. I now chair the Haskell core libraries |
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+ |committee, collaborate with hundreds of other developers on over |
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+ |200 projects on github, and I am obsessed with finding better |
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+ |tools so that seven years from now I won’t be stuck solving the |
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+ |same problems with small variations on the same tools I was stuck |
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+ |using seven years ago. |
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+ |  |
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+ |--|
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+ |**Stephanie Weirich**|
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+ |Stephanie Weirich is an American computer scientist specializing |
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+ |in type theory, type inference, dependent types, and functional |
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+ |programming. She is a professor of computer science at the |
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+ |University of Pennsylvania. |
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+ | |
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+ |Weirich graduated magna cum laude in 1996 from Rice University, |
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+ |with a bachelor's degree in computer science. At Rice, she |
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+ |became interested in programming languages through an |
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+ |undergraduate research project with Matthias Felleisen. She |
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+ |moved to Cornell University for her graduate studies, completing |
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+ |her Ph.D. in 2002. Her dissertation, Programming with Types, |
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+ |was supervised by Greg Morrisett. She joined the University of |
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+ |Pennsylvania faculty in 2002. |
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+ [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Weirich)
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+ |  |
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+ |--|
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+ |**Simon Marlow**|
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+ |Simon Marlow is a British computer programmer, author, and |
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+ |co-developer of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC). He and Simon |
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+ |Peyton Jones won the SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award |
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+ |in 2011 for their work on GHC. Marlow's book Parallel and |
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+ |Concurrent Programming in Haskell was published in August 2013. |
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+ | |
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+ |Formerly of Microsoft Research, Marlow has worked at Facebook |
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+ |since March 2013. The "noted Haskell guru" is part of the team |
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+ |behind Facebook's open source Haxl project, a Haskell library |
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+ |that simplifies access to remote data. |
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+ [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Marlow)
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### Affiliated Committees and Projects
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something by _all of us_. Please [contact](/en/contact/) us if you are
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interested in joining us in our quest to make Haskell better for everyone.
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+ #### The Hackage Trustees
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+ Placeholder text until the Hackage Trustees provide an official statement.
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+ #### Volunteers
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+ This is a placeholder for space we will use to include key volunteers who are not on the board or with one of the affiliated committees.
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