Simon Peyton Jones
(Former) Senior Principal Researcher
Awards & Honours
Fellowships
- Fellow of the Royal Society (2016)
- Distinguished Fellow of the BCS (2017)
- Fellow of the ACM (2004)
I am honoured to have received the following honorary degrees:
- Honorary DSc from the University of Glasgow (2013); Muffy Calder’s oration
- Honorary DEd from the University of Bath (2017); Chris Budd’s oration; video
- Honorary DSc from the University of Kent, Canterbury (2017)
- Honorary DSc from the Queen Mary University of London (2017)
Awards
- The 2016 ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award
- The 2016 ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential ICFP Paper Award (shared with Dimitrios Vytiniotis, Stephanie Weirich, and Geoffrey Washburn)
- The 2015 ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential ICFP Paper Award (shared with Manuel M. T. Chakravarty and Gabriele Keller)
- The 2014 ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Service Award
- The 2014 ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential ICFP Paper Award (shared with Ralf Lämmel)
- The 2011 ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award (shared with Simon Marlow)
- The 2003 ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential POPL Paper Award (shared with Philip Wadler)