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The Haskell Foundation [board of directors](/board-of-directors) are
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responsible for managing and setting the direction of the Haskell
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Foundation. HF's current board will serve on an interim basis during the launch phase and will manage the establishment of the
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first full board in early 2021.
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team:
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first full board in early 2021.
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team:
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- name: Simon Peyton Jones
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location: UK
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avatar: './images/spj.png'
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description: |
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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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I am married to Dorothy, a priest in the Church of England. We
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have six children.
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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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Simon is a researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, England.
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He started there in Sept 1998. He’s also an Honorary Professor of
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the Computing Science Department at Glasgow University, where he
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was a professor during 1990-1998.
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Simon is married to Dorothy, a priest in the Church of England.
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They have six children.
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Simon is interested in the design, implementation, and application
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of lazy functional languages. In practical terms, that means he
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spends a most of my time on the design and implementation of the
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language Haskell. In particular, much of his work is focused
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around the Glasgow Haskell Compiler, and its ramifications.
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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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role:
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Simon is also chair of Computing at School, the group at the
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epicentre of the reform of the national curriculum for Computing
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in England. Computer science is now a foundational subject,
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alongside maths and natural science, that every child learns from
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primary school onwards.
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- name: Chris Dornan
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location: UK
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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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- name: Gabriele Keller
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location: USA
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avatar: './images/gk.png'
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I’m a Professor of Software Technology in the Department of
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Information and Computing Sciences. My research focuses on how
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Gabriele is Professor of Software Technology in the Department of
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Information and Computing Sciences. Her research focuses on how
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programming languages can be used to improve the quality of
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software. Conventional software testing is very important, but
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can’t guarantee the absence of errors. We are addressing this
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problem in our research on developing and using programming
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can’t guarantee the absence of errors. She is addressing this
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problem in her research on developing and using programming
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languages that are based on mathematical theory, so we can prove
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that a program will work in all scenarios. We call it
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that a program will work in all scenarios. Call it
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‘correctness by construction’. The real world significance is
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obvious: it saves a lot of time and it eliminates errors so which
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obvious: it saves a lot of time and it eliminates errors, so which
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company wouldn’t want it?
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- name: Jasper Van er Jeugt
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Jasper is a Principal Engineer at Fugue, a cloud security startup.
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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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Edward spent most of his adult life trying to build reusable code
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in imperative languages before realizing he was building castles
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in sand. He converted to Haskell in 2006 while searching for
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better building materials. He has sinced chaired the Haskell core
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libraries committee, collaborated with hundreds of other
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developers on over 200 projects on github, and is obsessed with
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finding better tools so that seven years from now we won’t be
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stuck solving the same problems with small variations on the same
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tools we were stuck using seven years ago.
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- name: Stephanie Weirich
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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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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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Sandburst, Credit Suisse, Standard Chartered Bank, Facebook, X
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Development, Google and is currently employed by Epic Games.
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The following groups affiliated with the Haskell Foundation:
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- The [Haskell IDE Team](https://github.com/haskell/haskell-language-server)
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- The [GHC Steering Committee](https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals)
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- [Haskell Weekly](https://haskellweekly.news/)
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The following groups are in the process of affiliating. This means they
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endorse the Haskell Foundation but are still in the process of adopting the
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new guidelines:
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- The [Core Libraries Committee](https://wiki.haskell.org/Core_Libraries_Committee)
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- The [Haskell.org Committee](https://www.haskell.org/haskell-org-committee)
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- The Haskell Admins
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- [Cabal](https://www.haskell.org/cabal/)
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This is not a closed list! We very much want the Haskell Foundation to be
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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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