Erik Meijer (computer scientist)
{{Short description|Dutch computer scientist (born 1963)}}
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| fields = Computer science, functional programming
| workplaces = Utrecht University
Microsoft
Facebook
Delft University of Technology
University of Nottingham
Applied Duality Inc.
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| education = Nijmegen University, Ph.D., 1992
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| known_for = Functional programming
Haskell language research
Work on: C#, Visual Basic .NET, LINQ, Volta, reactive programming framework (ReactiveX) for .NET Framework
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| awards = Microsoft: Outstanding Technical Achievement, 2007; Outstanding Technical Leadership, 2009
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Erik Meijer (born 18 April 1963, Curaçao) is a Dutch computer scientist and entrepreneur. From 2000 to early 2013, he was a software architect for Microsoft where he headed the Cloud Programmability Team.{{cite web|author= |url=http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Erik-Meijer-and-Team-Cloud-Data-Programmability-Connecting-the-Distributed-Dots |title=Erik Meijer and Team: Cloud Data Programmability - Connecting the Distributed Dots | Going Deep | Channel 9 |publisher=Channel9.msdn.com |date=2010-01-22 |accessdate=2013-10-17}} He then founded Applied Duality Inc.{{cite web|url=http://www.applied-duality.com/ |title=Applied Duality Inc |publisher=Applied-duality.com |date= |accessdate=2015-02-19}} in 2013. Before that, he was an associate professor at Utrecht University. From 2015 to 2024, he was a Senior Director of Engineering at Facebook (now Meta){{Cite web |last=Goldman |first=Sharon |title=The ‘Meta AI mafia’ brain drain continues with 3 more major departures |url=https://fortune.com/2024/04/02/mark-zuckerberg-ai-jobs-meta-brain-drain-erik-meijer/ |access-date=2024-12-27 |website=Fortune |language=en}} and subsequently stated, after leaving, that there is “no advantage to be inside a large corp if you want to build cool stuff on top of LLMS (Large Language Models).”{{Cite web |date=2024-03-28 |title=Erik Meijer Departs Meta, Advocates for Innovation Beyond Corporate Walls |url=https://oneainews.com/erik-meijer-departs-meta-advocates-for-innovation-beyond-corporate-walls/ |access-date=2024-12-27 |website=One AI News |language=en-US}}
Early life and education
Meijer lived in the Netherlands Antilles until the age of 14 when his father retired from his job and the family moved back to the Netherlands.{{cite web |author= |date=2010-03-04 |title=Erik Meijer: Rebel with a Cause | Behind The Code | Channel 9 |url=http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Behind+The+Code/Erik-Meijer-Rebel-with-a-Cause-Democratizing-the-Machine/ |accessdate=2013-10-17 |publisher=Channel9.msdn.com}} He received his Ph.D. from Nijmegen University (now Radboud University) in 1992.{{Cite web |date=2021-08-11 |title=100 Notable Alumni of Radboud University [Sorted List] |url=https://edurank.org/uni/radboud-university/alumni/ |access-date=2024-12-27 |website=EduRank.org - Discover university rankings by location |language=en}}
Professional contributions
Meijer's research has included the areas of functional programming (particularly Haskell{{cite web|url=http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/ |title=The Haskell 98 Language Report |publisher=Haskell.org |date= |accessdate=2015-02-19}})
compiler implementation, parsing, programming language design, XML, and foreign function interfaces.
His work at Microsoft included C#, Visual Basic, LINQ, Volta, and the reactive programming framework (Reactive Extensions) for the .NET Framework.
In 2009, he was the recipient of the Microsoft Outstanding Technical Leadership Award{{cite web|url=http://www.microsoft.com/about/technicalrecognition/Erik-Meijer.aspx |title=Microsoft TCN - Awards and Recognitions |publisher=Microsoft.com |date= |accessdate=2015-02-19}} and in 2007, the Outstanding Technical Achievement Award as a member of the C# team.{{cite web|url=http://www.microsoft.com/about/technicalrecognition/Visual-Team.aspx |title=Microsoft TCN - Awards and Recognitions |publisher=Microsoft.com |date= |accessdate=2013-10-17}}
In 2011, Erik Meijer was appointed part-time professor of Cloud Programming within the [http://www.se.ewi.tudelft.nl Software Engineering Research Group] at Delft University of Technology.[http://home.tudelft.nl/en/current/latest-news/article/detail/microsoft-software-ontwikkelaar-erik-meijer-wordt-deeltijdhoogleraar/] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111221231640/http://home.tudelft.nl/en/current/latest-news/article/detail/microsoft-software-ontwikkelaar-erik-meijer-wordt-deeltijdhoogleraar/|date=December 21, 2011}} He is also member of the ACM Queue Editorial Board.{{cite web|url=http://queue.acm.org/editorialboardx.cfm |title=Editorial Board - ACM Queue |publisher=Queue.acm.org |date= |accessdate=2013-10-17}} Since 2013, he is also Honorary Professor of Programming Language Design at the [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/computerscience/index.aspx School of Computer Science] of the University of Nottingham, associated with the [https://web.archive.org/web/20160422050911/http://fp.cs.nott.ac.uk/ Functional Programming Laboratory].
In early 2013, Erik Meijer left Microsoft and started Applied Duality Incorporated. During this period he worked on the Hack language with Facebook, RxJava library with Netflix, and the Dart language with Google.{{Citation |last=GOTO Conferences |title=One Hacker Way • Erik Meijer |date=2015-10-21 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvMuPtuvP5w |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/FvMuPtuvP5w |archive-date=2021-12-22 |url-status=live |accessdate=2016-06-29}}{{cbignore}}
On Christmas 2014, Erik Meijer was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia and suffered a close to death experience for which he was hospitalized.{{r|goto}}
He teaches a course on the MOOC provider Coursera, called "Principles of Reactive Programming",{{cite web|url=https://www.coursera.org/course/reactive |title=Free Online Courses From Top Universities |publisher=Coursera |date= |accessdate=2015-02-19}} and a course on edX called "Introduction to Functional Programming".{{cite web|url=https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-functional-programming-delftx-fp101x-0 |title=Introduction to Functional Programming |publisher=edX |date= |accessdate=2015-09-14}}
Since 2020, Meijer has been a member of the Steering Committee for the [https://cloudintelligenceworkshop.org/ International Workshop on Cloud Intelligence / AIOps] in conjunction with the ICSE, ASPLOS, MLSys, AAAI annual conferences.{{Cite web |title=Organizers |url=https://cloudintelligenceworkshop.org/organizers.html |access-date=2024-12-27 |website=cloudintelligenceworkshop.org |language=en}}
Books
- Advanced Functional Programming: First International Spring School on Advanced Functional Programming Techniques (Springer, 1995){{Cite journal |date=1995 |editor-last=Jeuring |editor-first=Johan |editor2-last=Meijer |editor2-first=Erik |title=Advanced Functional Programming |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/3-540-59451-5 |journal=Lecture Notes in Computer Science |language=en |doi=10.1007/3-540-59451-5 |issn=0302-9743}}
- Handbook of Multilevel Analysis (Springer, 2008){{Cite journal |date=2008 |editor-last=Leeuw |editor-first=Jan de |editor2-last=Meijer |editor2-first=Erik |title=Handbook of Multilevel Analysis |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-0-387-73186-5 |journal=SpringerLink |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-0-387-73186-5}}
- The Dart Programming Language (Addison-Wesley Professional, 2015){{Cite web |title=Amazon.com |url=https://www.amazon.com/Dart-Programming-Language-Gilad-Bracha/dp/0321927702 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20221205232352/https://www.amazon.com/Dart-Programming-Language-Gilad-Bracha/dp/0321927702 |archive-date=2022-12-05 |access-date=2024-12-27 |website=www.amazon.com |language=en-us}}
- Reactive Programming with RxJava: Creating Asynchronous, Event-Based Applications (2016){{Cite web |title=Reactive Programming with RxJava[Book] |url=https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/reactive-programming-with/9781491931646/ |access-date=2024-12-27 |website=www.oreilly.com |language=en}}
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- {{cite web
| title = Erik Meijer: we leven in het stenen tijdperk
| work = Video's - Tweakers
| accessdate = 2013-03-28
| date = 2012-02-18
| url = http://tweakers.net/video/4892/erik-meijer-we-leven-in-het-stenen-tijdperk.html
|language=nl}}
- List of [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/m/Meijer:Erik.html Erik Meijer's publications] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120830131959/http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/m/Meijer:Erik.html |date=30 August 2012 }} available from DBLP.
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