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David Park
Born1935 (1935)
Died29 September 1990(1990-09-29) (aged 54–55)
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

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]

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  1. ^ McCarthy, J.; Brayton, R.; Edwards, D.; Fox, P.; Hodes, L.; Luckham, D.; Maling, K.; Park, D.; Russell, S. (March 1960), LISP I Programmers Manual (PDF), Boston, Massachusetts: Artificial Intelligence Group, M.I.T. Computation Center and Research Laboratory, retrieved 11 May 2010
  2. ^ Paterson, Michael (1994). "David Michael Ritchie Park (1935–1990) in memoriam". Theoretical Computer Science (PDF). Vol. 133. Oxford: Elsevier. pp. 187–200. ISSN  0304-3975.
  3. ^ a b Paterson, M.S. (March 1990). "Obituary: Professor David Michael Ritchie Park". Formal Aspects of Computing. 2 (1). London: Springer: 299–300. doi: 10.1007/BF01888230. ISSN  0934-5043. S2CID  13190797. Archived from the original on 14 July 2011.

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