| Paul Hudak | |
| Occupation: | Computer scientist |
| Birth Name: | Paul Raymond Hudak |
| Birth Date: | 15 July 1952[1] |
| Birth Place: | Baltimore, Maryland, United States |
| Death Place: | New Haven, Connecticut |
| Resting Place: | Grove Street Cemetery |
| Fields: | Computer science |
| Thesis Title: | Object and Task Reclamation in Distributed Applicative Processing Systems |
| Thesis Url: | http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=910584 |
| Thesis Year: | 1982 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Robert M. Keller |
| Notable Students: | Martin Odersky |
| Known For: | co-designing the programming language Haskell[2] |
| Spouse: | Cathy Van Dyke |
Paul Raymond Hudak (July 15, 1952 – April 29, 2015) was an American musician and professor of computer science at Yale University who was best known for his involvement in the design of the programming language Haskell, and for several textbooks on Haskell and computer music. He was a chair of the department, and was also master of Saybrook College. He died on April 29, 2015, of leukemia.[3] [4]