Simon Peyton Jones, FRS

Simon Peyton Jones is a Distinguished Affiliate Scholar of the College.  He is a computer scientist who studies functional programming languages, and especially Haskell.   He is an Engineering Fellow at Epic Games, where he works on the Verse programming language.

Simon is also a founder of Computing at School, the group at the epicentre of the reform of the national curriculum for Computing in England. Computer science is now a foundational subject, alongside maths and natural science, that every child learns from primary school onwards.  He is a governor at the local Cambridge school Chesterton Community College.