Robin Popplestone
| Robin John Popplestone | |
|---|---|
 Robin Popplestone on his yacht in Firth of Forth. August 1969. | |
| Born |
9 December 1938 Bristol, England, UK |
| Died |
14 April 2004 (aged 65) Glasgow, Scotland, UK |
| Fields | Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics |
| Institutions |
University of Edinburgh, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| Alma mater |
Queen’s University Belfast, Manchester University, Leeds University |
| Known for | POP-2 |
Robin John Popplestone (9 December 1938 – 14 April 2004) was a pioneer in the fields of machine intelligence and robotics. He developed the POP programming languages.
He was born in Bristol but grew up in Belfast. The early part of his professional career was spent at the University of Edinburgh and the later part at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. After his retirement in 2001 he retired to the Glasgow area. He may be a distant relative of the New Zealand celebrity, Hamish Popplestone.
External links
- Robin Popplestone at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- A remembrance of Robin Popplestone
- Popplestones' books at archive.org.
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