Simon Peyton Jones
British computer scientist
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| 2022 | Appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Birthday Honours for services to education and computer science. |
| 2021 | Started working at Epic Games as an engineering fellow, ending his tenure at Microsoft Research. |
| 2019 | Appointed chair of the newly founded UK National Centre for Computing Education. |
| 2017 | Received honorary doctorates from the University of Kent and University of Bath. |
| 2017 | Became a Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society (DFBCS). |
| 2016 | Received the ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award. |
| 2016 | Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). |
| 2013 | Received an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow. |
| 2011 | Awarded membership in the Academia Europaea (MAE). |
| 2011 | Together with Simon Marlow, awarded the SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award for their work on the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC). |
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