Robert Virding recently joined Erlang Solutions Ltd as
Principal Language Expert. While at Ericsson AB, Robert Virding was one of the
original members of the Ericsson Computer Science Lab, and co-inventor of the
Erlang language. He took part in the original system design and contributed
much of the original libraries, as well as to the current compiler. While at
the lab he also did a lot of work on the implementation of logic and functional
languages and on garbage collection. He has also worked as an entrepreneur and
was one of the co-founders of one of the first Erlang startups (Bluetail).
Robert Virding also worked a number of years at the Swedish Defence Materiel
Administration (FMV) Modelling and Simulations Group. He co-authored the first
book (Prentice-Hall) on Erlang, and is regularly invited to teach and present
throughout the world.