| Craig Chambers | |
| Birth Date: | December 30, 1950 |
| Birth Place: | Aarhus, Denmark |
| Residence: | New York City, New York, U.S.[1] |
| Nationality: | Danish |
| Workplaces: | Aarhus University University of Cambridge Texas A&M University Bell Labs Morgan Stanley Columbia University |
| Alma Mater: | Aarhus University (MSc) Churchill College, Cambridge (PhD) |
| Thesis Title: | Communication and control in distributed computer systems |
| Thesis Url: | http://ulmss-newton.lib.cam.ac.uk/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=14260 |
| Thesis Year: | 1979 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | David Wheeler |
| Notable Students: | --> |
| Known For: | Creating Cecil, Diesel programming languages |
| Spouse: | --> |
Craig Chambers has been a computer scientist at Google since 2007.[2] Prior to this, he was a Professor in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from MIT in 1986 and his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford in 1992. He is best known for the influential research language Self, which introduced prototypes as an alternative to classes, and code-splitting, a compilation technique that generates separate code paths for fast and general cases to speed execution of dynamically typed programs.[3] He was the PhD advisor of Google's current chief scientist, Jeff Dean.