Joe armstrong erlang biography for kids
Joseph Leslie Armstrong (27 December – 20 April ) was a computer scientist working in the area of fault-tolerant distributed systems..
Joe Armstrong (programmer)
British computer scientist (1950–2019)
Joseph Leslie Armstrong (27 December 1950 – 20 April 2019) was a computer scientist working in the area of fault-tolerantdistributed systems.
He is best known as one of the co-designers of the Erlang programming language.
He is best known as one of the co-designers of the Erlang programming language.
Early life and education
Armstrong was born in Bournemouth, England in 1950.[1][2]
At 17, Armstrong began programming in Fortran on his local council's mainframe.[1]
Armstrong graduated with a B.Sc.
in Physics from University College London in 1972.[2]
He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden in 2003.[2][3] His dissertation was titled Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors.[4] He was a professor at KTH from 2014 until his death.[2]
Career
After briefly working for Donald Michie at the University of Edinburg