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Department of Computer Science and Technology

  • Emeritus Professor
  • Emeritus Fellow of Robinson College

Link to my olde-style web page: www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~am21

Biography

Alan Mycroft is a Computer Science Academic who worked at the Department of Computer Science and Technology (previously the Computer Laboratory) of the University of Cambridge for 39 years, retiring from "Professor of Computing" to "Emeritus Professor" on 30 September 2023.

After gaining a Mathematics degree at Cambridge and a PhD in Computer Science at Edinburgh, he was a post-doc at Edinburgh, a Forskarsassistent (a research post) at Chalmers University in Sweden, and then moved back to Cambridge.

His research centres on Programming Languages, their semantics, their analysis and their compilation.

He has spent sabbaticals at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, IMDEA in Madrid, DTU in Lyngby, IITB in Mumbai along with industrial leave at AT&T Research and Intel Research.

He was a founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and a Teaching Fellow at Robinson College, Cambridge

Research

Alan's research centres on Programming Languages, their semantics, their analysis and their compilation.

He continues to be interested in appropriate research collaborations but, since retirement, can no longer supervise Masters or PhD students.

Publications

Publication list below is automatically created by Symplectic.  Some readers prefer Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0ycSEz8AAAAJ

Contact Details

Room: 
FC08
Email: 

alan.mycroft@cl.cam.ac.uk