Want fewer ads?

R. Kent Dybvig is a professor of Computer Science at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.His research focuses on programming languages, and he is known in the Lisp community as the principal developer of the Chez Scheme compiler and run-time system. Together with Daniel P. Friedman, he has long advocated the use of the Scheme language in teaching computer science.

For his contributions to both the practical and theoretical aspects of computing and information technology, in particular his design and development of Chez Scheme, theACM named Dybvig a Distinguished Engineer in 2006, the first year the association awarded distinguished ranks.

This author page uses material from the Wikipedia article "R. Kent Dybvig", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0