In memoriam Neil Deaton Jones
summary
A 2024 memorial records Neil Deaton Jones’s death (March 27, 2023, age 82) and catalogs concrete contributions: partial evaluation that leads to self-applicable interpreter techniques and compiler generation, development of binding-time analysis, program-analysis tools, and transfers between programming-language methods and complexity results (truth‑table reductions, p‑completeness, spectrum characterizations). It mixes archival photos, anecdotes, a linked proceedings article (DOI 10.1145/3635800.3639464) and first‑hand recollections of workshops and concrete results that shaped PEPM.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Session introduction
- 1:51Partial evaluation origins 1971
- 3:35DIKU years with Neil Jones
- 5:45PEPM workshop series born
- 7:07PEPM groundbreaking ideas forum
- 8:33In memoriam: Honoring lost pioneers
- 11:24Personal reflections encouraged
- 12:27PEPM history celebration
- 13:53Neil Jones’ relentless inquiry
- 16:46Neil Jones’ interdisciplinary legacy
- 18:52Field memories and photos
- 20:40Future of PEPM
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