Martin Odersky

Martin Odersky
Martin Odersky

Born September 3, 1958 (1958-09-03) (age 53)
Residence Lausanne, Switzerland
Nationality German
Fields Computer languages
Alma mater Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, ETH Zurich
Known for Generic Java, Scala

Martin Odersky (born 5 September 1958) is a German computer scientist and professor of programming methods at the EPFL. He specialises in code analysis and programming languages.

In 1989 Odersky received his Ph.D. from the ETH Zurich.

He designed the Scala programming language and Generic Java, and built the current generation of javac, the Java compiler. In 2007 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

In 2011, Odersky founded Typesafe, a company to support and promote Scala.[1]

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  1. ^ http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_18048434?source=rss&nclick_check=1