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Joe Armstrong

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Joe Armstrong was a British computer scientist specializing in fault-tolerant distributed systems who co-designed the Erlang programming language in 1986 with Robert Virding and Mike Williams at Ericsson. He held a PhD in computer science from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, awarded 2003, and became a KTH professor in 2014.

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Birth Year
1950 1
Birth Date
1950-12-27 1
Death Year
2019 1
Death Date
2019-04-20 1
Nationality
British 1
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Erlang, Languages
Source Wikipedia: Erlang (programming language)
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Ph.D. in Computer Science from Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm (2003)
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Joseph Leslie Armstrong (27 December 1950 - 20 April 2019) was a computer scientist working in the area of fault-tolerant distributed systems. He is one of the co-designers of the Erlang programming language.
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Wikipedia: Erlang (programming language)
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