# Craig Chambers

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{{Short description|American computer scientist}}
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| name              = Craig Chambers
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| birth_place       = [Aarhus](/source/Aarhus), [Denmark](/source/Denmark)
| residence         = [New York City](/source/New_York_City), [New York](/source/New_York), U.S.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stroustrup.com/bio.html|title=Stroustrup: Biographical Information|work=stroustrup.com}}</ref>
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| workplaces        = [Aarhus University](/source/Aarhus_University)<br/>[University of Cambridge](/source/University_of_Cambridge)<br/>[Texas A&M University](/source/Texas_A%26M_University) <br/>[Bell Labs](/source/Bell_Labs)<br/>[Morgan Stanley](/source/Morgan_Stanley)<br/>[Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University)
| alma_mater        = [Aarhus University](/source/Aarhus_University) (MSc)<br/>[Churchill College, Cambridge](/source/Churchill_College%2C_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](/source/David_Wheeler_(computer_scientist))
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| known_for         = Creating [Cecil](/source/Cecil_(programming_language)), [Diesel](/source/Diesel_(programming_language)) programming languages
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'''Craig Chambers''' has been a [computer scientist](/source/computer_scientist) at [Google](/source/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](/source/professor) in the department of computer science and engineering at the [University of Washington](/source/University_of_Washington). He received his [B.S.](/source/B.S.) degree in computer science from [MIT](/source/MIT) in 1986 and his [Ph.D.](/source/Ph.D.) in computer science from [Stanford](/source/Stanford) in 1992. He is best known for the influential research language [Self](/source/Self_(programming_language)), 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](/source/Jeff_Dean).

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