Gérard Philippe Berry (born 25 December 1948) is a French computer scientist, member of the French Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Technologies, and Academia Europaea. He was the Chief Scientist Officer of Esterel Technologies from 2000 to 2009. He held the 2007-2008 yearly Liliane Bettencourt chair of Technological Innovation at the Collège de France. He was Director of Research at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis and held the 2009-2010 yearly Informatics and Digital Sciences chair at the . Berry's work, which spans over more than 30 years, brought important contributions to three main fields: lambda calculus and functional programming parallel and real-time programming languages design automation for synchronous digital circuits
Berry is known for the Esterel programming language.
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Personal home page at INRIA — Courses at Collège de France
Short presentation — French Academy of Sciences web site: Biography — Decree JORF #176, 08/01/2007, p12944, text #54: Pr. Berry appointed associate professor at Collège de France
Bibliography
Gérard Berry, , Odile Jacob, 2017 Gérard Berry, , Fayard, Paris, 2013. Gérard Berry, , Fayard, Paris, 2008 Gérard Berry, , Fayard, Paris, 2008.