Richard Jones
Emeritus Professor Of Computer Systems at University of Kent
Canterbury, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Jones is an Emeritus Professor of Computer Systems at the University of Kent and a globally recognized expert in garbage collection and dynamic memory management, authoring seminal texts including The Garbage Collection Handbook. His career spans academic leadership roles—Head of School, Associate Dean and Professor—combined with ongoing scholarly influence as an ACM Distinguished Scientist and Honorary Fellow at Glasgow. He coordinates MMnet, a long-running UK research network on memory management, reflecting a knack for fostering collaboration across academia and industry. Trained originally in mathematics at Oxford and holding an MSc in Computer Science, he blends rigorous theoretical grounding with practical systems research that has shaped runtime and memory-management practice.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
M.A., Mathematics, M.A., Mathematics at University of OxfordMSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at University of Kent
Github Skills (4)
nikola4
pypy3
python2
utterances2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
rejones/wyc
Feb 2019 - Jan 2024
Contributions:52 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years
rejones/sapphire
Feb 2018 - Jun 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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