From Wikipedia: Simon Peyton Jones is a British computer scientist who researches [...]functional programming languages, particularly lazy functional languages.

From Wikipedia: Simon Peyton Jones is a British computer scientist who researches [...]functional programming languages, particularly lazy functional languages. [...] Since 1998 he has worked as a researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge [...]. He is a major contributor to the design of the Haskell programming language, and a principal designer of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC). He is also co-creator of the C-- programming language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Peyton_Jones http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Peyton_Jones EDIT: Perhaps this article applies only to Microsoft Research, not MSFT as a whole.