Simon Marlow

{{Short description|British computer scientist}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}}

{{Use British English|date=April 2018}}

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| fields = Computer science

| workplaces = Microsoft Research
Facebook, Meta Platforms (London)

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| education = University of Glasgow
University of Bristol

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| known_for = Glasgow Haskell Compiler

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| awards = SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award (2011)

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Simon Marlow is a British computer scientist, programmer, author, and co-developer of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) for the programming language Haskell. He and Simon Peyton Jones won the SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award in 2011 for their work on GHC. Marlow's book Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell was published in July 2013.{{Cite book |last=Marlow |first=Simon |date=July 2013 |url=https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/parallel-and-concurrent/9781449335939/ |title=Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell: Techniques for Multicore and Multithreaded Programming |publisher=O’Reilly Media |isbn=9781449335908 |access-date=2015-09-24}}

Formerly of Microsoft Research,{{Cite web |last=Marlow |first=Simon |date=November 2012 |url=https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell/2012-November/023566.html |title=[Haskell] Leaving Microsoft |access-date=2015-09-24}} Marlow has worked at Facebook since March 2013. The "noted Haskell guru"{{Cite web |title=Facebook's New Spam-Killer Hints at the Future of Coding |url=https://www.wired.com/2015/09/facebooks-new-anti-spam-system-hints-future-coding/ |access-date=2015-09-24}} is part of the team behind Facebook's open source Haxl project,{{Cite web |last=Svenningsson |first=Josef |date=23 November 2022 |url=https://github.com/facebook/Haxl |title=Haxl |website=GitHub |access-date=2023-05-20}}{{Cite web |title=Fighting spam with Haskell |url=https://code.facebook.com/posts/745068642270222/fighting-spam-with-haskell/ |website=Facebook Code |access-date=2015-09-24}} a Haskell library that simplifies access to remote data.{{Cite web |title=facebook/Haxl |url=https://github.com/facebook/Haxl |website=GitHub |access-date=2015-09-24}}