Joe Armstrong (programmer)

Joe Armstrong
Armstrong in 2009
Born(1950-12-27)27 December 1950
Bournemouth, England, UK
Died20 April 2019(2019-04-20) (aged 68)
Alma materUniversity College London, UK; Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
OccupationsComputer programmer, professor, author
Known forCo-creator of the Erlang programming language
SpouseHelen Taylor
ChildrenThomas Armstrong, Claire Armstrong
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh
Ericsson Computer Science Lab
KTH
Websitejoearms.github.io

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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