{{Short description|American computer scientist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{BLP sources|date=September 2015}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Craig Chambers <!--| image = BjarneStroustrup.jpg | image_size = 280px | alt = | caption = Craig Chambers | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1950|12|30|63}} | birth_place = Aarhus, Denmark | residence = New York City, New York, U.S.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stroustrup.com/bio.html|title=Stroustrup: Biographical Information|work=stroustrup.com}}</ref> | citizenship = | nationality = Danish | fields = | workplaces = Aarhus University<br/>University of Cambridge<br/>Texas A&M University <br/>Bell Labs<br/>Morgan Stanley<br/>Columbia University | alma_mater = Aarhus University (MSc)<br/>Churchill College, Cambridge (PhD) | thesis_title = Communication and control in distributed computer systems | thesis_url = http://ulmss-newton.lib.cam.ac.uk/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=14260 | thesis_year = 1979 | doctoral_advisor = David Wheeler | academic_advisors = | notable_students = --> | known_for = Creating Cecil, Diesel programming languages <!-- | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | influences = | influenced = | awards = | website = {{URL|http://???.com}} | footnotes = | spouse = --> }}
'''Craig Chambers''' has been a computer scientist at Google since 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://research.google.com/pubs/author4707.html|title=Craig Chambers|work=google.com}}</ref> Prior to this, he was a professor in the department of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. He received his B.S. degree in computer science from MIT in 1986 and his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford in 1992. He is best known for the influential research language Self, which introduced prototypes as an alternative to classes, and code-splitting, a compilation technique that generates separate code paths for fast and general cases to speed execution of dynamically typed programs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~chambers/bio.html|title=Capsule Biography: Craig Chambers|work=washington.edu}}</ref> He was the PhD advisor of Google's current chief scientist, Jeff Dean.
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