Gérard Berry

Computer Scientist

1948 –

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Who is Gérard Berry?

Gérard Philippe Berry is a French computer scientist, member of French Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Technologies, and Academia Europaea. He was the Chief Scientist Officer of Esterel Technologies from 2000 to 2009. He held the 2007-2008 yearly Liliane Bettencourt chair of Technological Innovation at the Collège de France. He is currently Director of Research at INRIA and is holding the 2009-2010 yearly Informatics and Digital Sciences chair at the Collège de France. Berry's work, which spans over more than 30 years, brought important contributions to three main fields:

lambda calculus and functional programming

parallel and real-time programming languages

design automation for synchronous digital circuits

Berry is best known as the conceptor of the Esterel programming language.

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Born
1948
Also known as
  • Gerard Berry
Nationality
  • France
Profession
Education
  • École Polytechnique

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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